Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 27, 1 June 1915, Page 8

Great Britain

NATIONAL GOVERNMENT. United Pbkbb Association. London, May 30. Official: The following apijointments have Ijoen made : u:jder-secretarses. Heme Office.—Mr s'. Brace, M.P., who represents Glamorganshire. He h n member of the Labor Party, and is now to.office. ,Replaces Mr EUi:> J. Griffith: FC reign Office. —Lord Robert Cecil. K.C.. M:P., Unionist member for Ashton Manor. He is the third son of the late Lord Salisbury, and is new to office. Replaces Mr F. 1). Acland. Colonial Office.— Mr Arthur H. D. R. Steel-Maitland, M:P., Conservative member for East Birmingham. Acted a : ; unpaid private secretary to Mr Ritchie, also to Mr Austen Chamberlain. Replaces Lord Islington, who gfioes to the India Office. india Office. Lord Islington. Succeeded Lord Plunket as of New Zealand in 1910. Was chairman of Indian Public Service Commission 1912; Binder-Secretary for Colonies 191 •!. Replaces Mr C. H. Roberts.

War Office.— Mr H. J. Tennant, M.P. Xo change. FINANCIAL SECRETARIES. War Office.— Mr H. Foi-ster, M.P., Conservative member for Sevenoaks. Is new to office. Replaces Mr H. Baker. Admiralty.— Dr. T. J. Macnamara, M.P. Xo change. PARLSAMENTARY SECRETARIES. Board of Trade.— Captain E. G. Prettyman, M.P., Unionist member for Chelmsford. Has held the offices of Civil Lord and Secretary to the Admiralty. Has a wide acquaintance with agriculture. Replaces Mr J. M. Robertson. . *

Local Government Board. —Mr W. Hayes Fisher, M.P., Unionist,member for Fulham. Has served the office of Junior Lord of the Treasury andFiuancial Secretary to the Treasury. Replaces Mr Herbert Lewis. Agriculture.— Mr Francis Dyke Acland, M.P., late Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Replaces Sir H. Verne v.

Education. —Mr J. Herbert Lewis. M.l\, late Secretary tn Local Government 1 Board. Replaces Dr. C. Addison. Munitions.— Dr. Christopher Addison. MP., late Secretary to Board of Education. This is a new department ! of the War Office. Assistant Postmaster-General.—Mi-Herbert Pike Pease, M.P., Unionist lor Darlington. Was Unionist Whip. Replaces Captain C. Norton. Vice-President of Irish Department of Agriculture.—Mr T. W. Russell. M.P. >'o change. joint Secretaries to the Tfeasury.— Mr .1. W .(Julland, M.P., late Junior 1,0f.l of Treasury, and Lord E. B. Talbot, M.P., Unionist member for Chicester. Has served the office of Junior Lord of the Treasury. Replaces Hon. E. S. Montagyl Lords Commission .» of the Treasury.—.Mr C 5. H. Rollerts, M.P., Labor member for Norwich (lias not held office); Hon. G. W. A'. Howard, M.P.. Liberal member for West bury (was ■private secretary to the Prime Minister); Mr Wm. Clive.Bridgenisan, M.P.. Unionist member for Oswestry (was private secretary to Lord Knutsford); Ml" Walter Rea, M.P., Liberal member for Scarborough (has not held office previously). The above replace .Messrs J.'W. Uulland, W. Jones, W. W. Benn, and fL Webb.

"ALL ARE FOR THE STATE." Times and Sydney Sun Service. London, May 30. Mr Asquith, in a letter to Mr GulIr.nd. the Liberal Whip, said the new Cabinel implied a temporary abandonment of the party government that had boon in operation since 1832, and which he- believed was best adapted to national requirements in normal conditions. It was possible that the .sudden upheaval would astonish and cause misgiving to many Liberals, and the change was justified only by the urgency of the case and the national necessity. The conviction was forced upon him at the cost of infinite personal anxiety that non-party government was the most efficient instrument for the successful prosecution of th© war. When the national cause was vindicated they would again take up the unfinished tasks before the Liberal Partv.

MR CHURCHILL AND JAPAN. NATIONAL SERVICE URCED. London, May 31. The Japanese Minister of Marine has c:al>lod to Mr Churchill thanking him for his cordiality towards the Japanese Navy during his Admiralty career. Mr Churchill, in reply, expressed the hope that the comradeship of the two fleets would continue, and concluded by saying that all goes well. Lord Donham, bite Governor-Gene-ral of Australia, in a letter to the Times, advocates national service. The first step would be to register all men in the country classified according to age, trade and occupation. He bases his arguments on Australasian experience. Sydney, May 31. Major Hunt. M.P.. Ims cabled to the secretary of the British rmniigvation League that the majority of the people of Britain are-slowly realising what the war means, ami compulsory

I training is absolutely certain now. The new Government will be a great / help in atfoomulislfing this. LABOR TROUBLES. London. May '.\\. The tramway strikers rioted and wrecked several cars nt Hoiloway. Work is only partially resumed. The bulk remain out, but unless they are of military age their exclusion has been rescinded.

Four thousand at the Hlacnavon (Monmouth) colliery ironworks struck owing to the alleged withholding of a war bonus.