BRITAIN'S NEW WAR CABINET

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2476, 1 June 1915, Page 5

BRITAIN'S NEW WAR CABINET

ADMINISTRATIVE POSTS NEW UNDER-SECRETARIES London, May 30. Official: The following appointments aro announced:— UNDER-SECRETARIES. Homo Office—Mr. W. Brace, Labour member tor Glamorgan, Foreign Office—Lord Robert Cecil, Unionist member for Herts. Colonial Office.—Mr. A. H. D. E. Bteel-Maitland, Unionist member for Birmingham. India Office—Lord Islington (formerly Under-Secretary for the Colonial Office). War Office —Mr. H. J. Tennant (who retains tie position. FINANCIAL SECRETARIES. l\ar Offico—Mr. H. W. Forster, Unionist member for Warwick, Strat-fcrd-on-Avon. . Admiralty—Dr. Macnamara (who retains the position). lAR LIAMENTAR Y SECRETARIES. Board of Trade-Mr, E. G. Protyman, Unionist member, for Essex. Local Government—Right Hon. WilIm(ii ify. \es l 1 islier, Unionist member for Fulham. Board of Agriculture—Mr. F. D. Acland (formerly Under-Secretary for the Home Office). Boaid of Education—Mr. Herbert Lewis (formerly Secretary to the Local Government Board). Munitions of War—Dr.. C. Addison (formerly Secretary to the Board of Education). Assistant-Postmaster-General—Mr. H. Pike Pease, Unionist member for Darlington. Vice-President of the Irish Department of Agriculture—Mr, T. W. Russell (u'ln> retains the position). Joint Secretaries to the Treasury— Mr. J. W. Gulland (present position) slid Lord E. B. Talbot (Unionist member for Sussex). Lord Commissioners of the Treasury —Mr. G. H. Roberts (Labour member for Norwich), Hon. G. .Y>'. A. Howard (Liberal member for Wilts), Mr. AY. C. Bridgeman (Unionist member for Shropshire), and Mr. Walter Rea. (Liberal member for Scarborough). PARTY GOVERNMENT IN SUSPENSE. ALL ONE FOR. A. COMMON CAUSE. . (Rec. May 21, 5.55 p.m.) London, May 29. Mr. Asquith, in a letter to Mr. Gulland, the Liberal Whip, said that tho new Cabinet implied tho temporary abandonment of party Government, a system that had been in operation sinco 1532, and which >,c believed to be best adapted to our national requirements m normal conditions. It. was possible that this sudden upheaval might astonish and cause misgiving to many Liberals, but the chango was justified. Only by the urgency of the case, and the national necessity, had the conviction been forced upon him at a cost of mfiuite personal anxiety, that nonparty Government was tlie most efficient instrument for the successful prosecution of tlie war. "When the national had been vindicated they would again take up the unfinished tasks of tho Liberal rarty.

THE NEW LAEOUR MINISTER,

APPEAL TO THE WORKERS.

London, May 30. Tlie Labour. Progressive Association, at a meeting at Barnard Castle, adopted Mr. Arthur Henderson for re-election, and congratulated him- on his entry into the Cabinet.

Mr. Heuderstin, in a speech, emphasised the point that the saving of the n a holi was n question of primary ami essentia] importance. Tlio country mustsecure such force, in both field and factory, as to enable it to place the issues in both field" and factory beyond all possible doubt. He appealed to all trade unions to give thoir members the greatest latitude if modifications were necessary to enable tlio country to get the ammunitions required.