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The Daily Journal
East Saint Louis, Saint Clair County, Illinois
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Serious rift in British government between War Minister Lord Kitchener and Munitions Minister David Lloyd George after the latter dismissed Kitchener's friend Sir Percy Girouard from the munitions department, citing incompetence. News censored in England; first reports via New York mail on Aug. 10.
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Breach Follows Dismissal of K. of K.'s Personal Friend--Censors Refuse to Pass Messages Relating to Trouble--Favorite is Finally Forced to Resign - Formerly a Business Man
NOT EQUAL TO JOB ASSIGNED
New York, Aug. 10.--Mail advices received here from London disclose startling information of a serious breach that has occurred between Lord Kitchener, minister of war, and David Lloyd George, minister of munitions, which has caused so much alarm among government officials in England that the censors refused to pass the news.
The break came following the summary dismissal from the munitions department of Sir Percy Girouard, a personal friend of Kitchener, by Lloyd George.
Girouard was sent to the munitions department, presumably at the request of Kitchener, soon after the department was formed. Lloyd George, in dismissing Kitchener's favorite, gave as the reason that Girouard was not equal to the tasks assigned to him.
No news has passed the censor respecting the rancor existing between the head of the munitions department and Lord Kitchener, and the mail brought the first word of Sir Percy Girouard's resignation.
Girouard went to the munitions department from the directorship of the great Armstrong firm. At the time Lloyd George accepted his arrival with a public expression of thanks made in the house of commons.
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sir percy girouard forced to resign from munitions department
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Serious breach between Lord Kitchener, minister of war, and David Lloyd George, minister of munitions, following Lloyd George's dismissal of Sir Percy Girouard, a personal friend of Kitchener, from the munitions department. Girouard deemed not equal to tasks assigned. Censors refused to pass news of the trouble. Girouard previously director of Armstrong firm.