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Mr. Asquith put the further question which every one has
been asking for weeks—" whether any change has been made or is con- templated in the status, the personnel, or the functions of the Com- mander-in-Chief or the Chief of the General Staff." The House was in duty bound, he said, to ask for " a definite and authoritative statement with a view to quieting suspicions and removing doubts, and if possible of satisfying us that the strategy of the war is to be conducted in the future upon sound lines, and upon lines which approve themselves to our highest technical advisers as well as to our statesmen." •
