Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 23, 27 May 1915, Page 5

Great Britain

THE NEW CABINET.

LIBERALS.

Mr Asquith—Premier. (So change). Sir S, 0. Buckmaster —Lord Chancellor. (.Late Solicitor-General. Will

be created a peer. He replaces

Lord Haldane). Marquis Of Crewe. —President of the Council. (Late Lord Privy Seal. He replaces Lord Bcauchamp). Mr R. McKenna —Chancellor of the Exchequer. (Replaces Mr Lloyd

George. Was Home Secretary) Sir John Simon —Home Secretary

(Replaces Mr McKenna. Was

Solicitor-General). Sir Edward Grey—Foreign Secretary. (No change). Earl Kitchener—Secretary lor War. (No change). Mr Lloyd George—. Minister for Munitions. This is a new Department

of the War Office. (Was Chancellor of the Exchequer). Mr W. Runciman —President of the Board of Trade. (No change). Mr Winston Churchill —Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster—a sinecure office. (Was First Lord of the Admiralty). Mr A. Birrell —Chief Secretary for Ireland. (No change). Mr T. McKinnon Wood —Secretary for Scotland. (No change). Mr L. V. Harcourt—First Commissioner of Works. (Replaces Lord Emmott. Was Colonial Secretary). UNIONISTS.

Marquis of Lansdowne—Without portfolio. (Was Foreign Secretary in Unionist Ministry). Earl Curzon —Lord Privy Seal. Replaces the -Marquis of Crewe. Was Viceroy for India 1898-1905. Has been Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs). Mr A. Bonar Law—Colonial Secretary. (Replaces Mr L. V. Har-

court). / Mr Austen Chamberlain —Secretary for India. (Kepiaces the Marquis of Crowe. Was Chancellor of the Exchequer in Mr Balfour's Cabinet). Air Arthur Balfour— First Lord of the Admiralty. (Replaces Mr Churchill. Was Premier 1902-3). Mr Walter Long —President Local Government Board. (Replaces Mr PL Samuel. Held same position in Mr Balfour's Cabinet). Earl of Selbourne —President Board of Agriculture. (Replaces Lord Lucas. Was First Lord of the Admiralty, also Under-Secretary for the Colonies. Succeeded Lord Milner as High Commissioner in South Africa). Sir Edward Carson—Attorney-Gener-al. (Replaces Sir J. A. Simon. Was Solicitor-General in Unionist Government). LABOR. Mr Arthur Henderson —Education Department, and will also assist the Government in Labor questions arising out of the war. (Was Chief Whip of the Labor Party). UNANIMOUS UNIONIST SUPPORT (Received 11.10 a.m.) London, May 20. The Unionist Party, at a meeting, Lord Lansdowno presiding, expressed the utmost unanimity in supporting „he Coalition and bringing the war to a successful termination at the earliest moment.

ATTACK ON LORD KITCHENER.

THE DAILY MAIL'S DIATRIBE.

Perth, May 26

The Daily News lias published a cable received from a private source, giving the substance of the attack on Lord Kitchener by the London Daily Mail, which provoked such widespread indignation in Britain. After blaming the Cabinet firstly, and Lord Kitchener secondly, for not adopting compulsory service, the Daily Mail proceeds : "We and the public never liked Lord Kitchener to use his own name instead of the King's for these volunteer armies which have been raised. The public, too, disliked some of the advertising methods which were adopted in order to gain recruits. We ourselves know Lord Kitchener starved the army in France of high explosive shells. The fact is be ordered the wrong kind of shell. The kind he ordered was the same as was used 'against the Boers. He persisted in sending shrapnel, which is useless for trench warfare, although warned repeatedly that the kind of shell required was ,a violent explosive bomb which would dynamite its way through trenches and entanglements. The class of shells Lord Kitchener has persisted in sending has caused death to thousands of our poor soldiers. The new advertisement urging the enlistment of men of forty years of age in our volunteer armies we regret having printed and must decline to print it again. Men of forty should not be used in this war until the recruiting powers of the country have been exhausted. The record of Lord Kitchener in Africa as a lighting general is not brilliant, and his life in India and lOgypt has made him unacquainted with British conditions."