THE GOVERNMENT'S DIFFICULTIES.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14160, 26 April 1916, Page 5

THE GOVERNMENT'S DIFFICULTIES.

ASCRIBED TO. LACK OF CANDOUR, PARLIAMENTARY SECRECY CRITICISED. London, April 24. I "The Times" says that nearly all the i troubles of Mr-Asquith's administration sprang from want of candour. Tho Order-in-Council in which it now seeks to take refuge is to cloud everything in deeper mystery. The "Daily Telegraph" says in the at-

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tempt to destroy the Government the campaign of invective has been carried to the extreme. It hopes that the Government will firmly hold to its resolution to maintain the secrecy of the Cabinet, but if Ministers fetter writers and speakers they must keep a rigid guard on their own expressions. The "Daily Mail*' says that the Order means that the Premier has no hope of inducing Ministers to hold their tongues. If there is any Cabinet leakage it must be due to the indiscretion of talkative Ministers.