Mr. Asquith in the House of Commons on Wednesday asked
the Prime Minister whether the Supreme War Council of the Allies would have power, if so advised by its Military Staff, to override, the opinions of our General Staff and our commanders on matters of strategy, whether the Council's Military Staff would have separate Intelligence and Operations Departments, and whether the Council or the separate Governments would determine the movements of the Armies. In reply Mr. Lloyd George said that each Govern- ment would control its General Staff and lea commanders, that the Council's Military Staff would merely be advisory and would receive all information from the existing sources, and that the Council would have no executive power, each Government retaining full power in regard to the distribution and movement of its Armies. The miseion of the Supreme War Council would be to watch over the general conduct of the war. It would examine the general war plans of the several Powers, and would try, with the help of its military advisers, to bring them Into accord.
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