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Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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t, ill thu IJritish attacks at Fro-uiflloM atul Kiclioliourg, tim want of an iiii-liiuittHl supply of hi^h expiosivos wtw a fatalhtir to our aiicceHs, rually gave the Ijist blowto the tottering LilitM-al Ministry. Tlie wlioluuituation was transfonned under the CoalitionGovernment, with Mr. JJoyd CJeorge as Min-ister of MunitioiLS and suhsed in theBattle of the Sonum. Yet the life of the the cost of whatever sacrifie(*s, and evt^i- moreintolerant of the flovernnu-nts conduct ofblockade policy, air pt)li(ry, labour i)olicy,food policy, shipping policy, and t*ven navalpolicy. Again and again Mr. Asipiitli waaurged to reduce his unwie)dy Cabinet of 23—a Cabinet many of whoso nienibt^rs weresuffering from pliysical «».\haiLstion—and toplace th<t real conduct of affairs in a few ablehands. But the situation dragged on, until atlast the Coalition died, as it woiv, a naturaldeath. Jhere was some talk of intrigue, but in
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MR LLOYD GEORGE, MR. RUNCIMAN GOAL-OWNERS Coalition saw disappointment after disappoint-ment—the comparative failure of tlie Battleof Loos, the Balkan fiasco, wliich ended in theoverthiow of Serbia and Montenegro and theopening of the German road to Turkey, thewithdrawal from the Dardanelles, the tragedyof Kut, the second Balkan fiasco and over-running of Rumania. It took the Coalition awliole year to proceed from the taking of aNational Register to the passing of the secondMilitary Service Act, and even that legislationwas of such a kind that in less than six monthsthere was no more urgent problem than theproblem of Man Power—and meanwhile a hostof other problems were accumulating. Publicopinion became ». k^er more insistent in itsdemand for vigorous conduct of the wai-, at AND MR. HENDERSONAT CARDIFF. MEET THE reality the end had long been inevitable, andwlien it came it was hailed with ahnost universalrelief. ■ There was little tUsposition, either in thecountry or in the Hou

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