The Independent . tive party as a whole willstand by the administration, but theLiberal party is hopelessly Borden hoped to rally the Lib-eral leaders to his war program andcreate a coalition cabinet, but his offersto various Liberals to enter the min-istry have been refused and it nowappears that he must undertake thegreat responsibility of carrying thruconscription with the present one partygovernment. The compulsory servicebill will have, however, the support ofmany Liberals from Ontario and thewestern provinces. Quebec is stillstrongly opposed. E. P. Patenaud hasresigned hi
The Independent . tive party as a whole willstand by the administration, but theLiberal party is hopelessly Borden hoped to rally the Lib-eral leaders to his war program andcreate a coalition cabinet, but his offersto various Liberals to enter the min-istry have been refused and it nowappears that he must undertake thegreat responsibility of carrying thruconscription with the present one partygovernment. The compulsory servicebill will have, however, the support ofmany Liberals from Ontario and thewestern provinces. Quebec is stillstrongly opposed. E. P. Patenaud hasresigned his position in the ministry asSecretary of State because of his op-position to conscription and his posi-tion is that of most of the FrenchCanadian leaders. Northcliffe Arriveson Mission Lord Northcliffearrived at NewYork within a fewdays of the announcement that he wascoming to America as permanent headof the British war mission. As with allthe diplomatic visits to or from thiscountry since we entered the war, the. LINCOLN?No, this is not the Great Emancipator reading The Independent, but Benjamin Chapin, who hasdevoted most of his life to the study and impersonation of Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Chapin has justfinished a four reel photoplay of Lincolns life, one of the best movies that has yet been produced date of Lord Northcliffes arrival waskept secret from the general publicuntil he was here. Altho Lord North-cliffe is directly responsible to the Brit-ish Cabinet and has full powers aschief of the war mission, he will devotehis attention to the detailed businessof coordinating the activities of theBritish organizations now in this coun-try and will not be a diplomatic agentin the same sense as his predecessor,Mr. Balfour. He paid a brief visit tothe Government at Washington, buttook part in no such public receptions,tours and demonstrations as did theFrench and British missions on theirfirst arrival. The Italian war mission postponedits projected tour of the country be-cause of
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