BRITISH CABINET

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3140, 19 July 1917, Page 5

BRITISH CABINET

NEW FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY SIR EDWARD CARSON JOINS THE WAR CABINET MR. CHURCHILL MINISTER OF MUNITIONS (Rec. July 18, 10.10 p.m.) London, July 17. Official •- Sir Edward Carson (First Lord of the Admiralty) has been appointed a member of the War Cabinet, without portfolio. Dr. C. Addison (Minister of Munitions) becomes Minister of Reconstruction (?) without portfolio. Mr. E. S. Montagu (at present not in tho Cabinet) succeeds , Mr. Austen Chamberlain as Secretary of State for India. Mr. AVinston Churchill becomes Minister of Munitions. Sir Eric Geddes (at present an additional member of the Admiralty Board) succeeds Sir Edward Oarson as First Lord of the Admiralty.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. [Sir Edward Carson's pending transfer to the War Cabinet was forecasted a few days ago. The preoise nature of Dr. Addison's new appointment is not clear. Mr. Montagu, who is an ex-Minister of Munitions (prior to Mr. Lloyd George's advent as Prime Minister), has had previous experience in tho India Office as Under-Secretary of State for India from 1910 till 1914. He went over to the Treasury, where he stayed till 1916, when ho became Minister of Munitions. Mr. Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty till tho Dardanelles crisis, and has been out of tho Ministry since then. Sir Erio Geddes, before the war, was a railway director, and since joining tho Government in an administrative capacity lias displayed outstanding talent as an organiser. He was Direotor-General of Transport, and in this position earned groat praise and admiration for the manner in which he handled the conveyance of troops and munitions to the front. In May last he joined the. Admiralty Board as an additional member.]