The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-21
LORD CURzON RESIGNS.
Kitcheners Ideas to Prevail in the
Government of India.

London, Aug 21-The resignation of
Lord Curzon of Kedleston, as viceroy
of India, and the appointment of the
Earl of Mimic as his successor has been
announced at the India office.
According to the correspondence,
which is issued in the form of a white
book it appears that Lord Curzons
resignation was cabled to that office on
decidedly bitter feeling between Lord
Curzon, the India Office, and Lord
Kitchener, commander-in-chief of the
forces in India, over the new plan of
army administration in India, Lord Cur
IONS dissatisfaction came to a head
with the refusal of the cabinet to ap-
point Major General Sir Edmund Bar
row, on Lord Cufzon's recommendation,
military supply member of the council.
Replying on August 2 to the refusal of
Mr. Brodrick, secretary of state for
India to make this appointment, Lord
Curzon requests that the government
reconsider its decision, I'm order to en-
able me to accept the responsibility
which [ infer his ma jesty's. government
still desires me to assume"
Mr.. Brodrick again refused to COM
ply with the request for the appoint
ment of Major General Barrow, and
Lord Curzon replied as follows:
1T is apparent that his ajesty's
government denies me that confidence
which alone can enable me to serve
them, and attach fundamentally diff
notifications, upon the acceptance of
which alone l consented to remain in
Office The situation, therefore, remains
where it was when 1 resigned in June.
If the government are unable to accept
my views I request the premier to
place my resignation in the hands of his
majesty
To this Mr. Brodrick replied that
there was request from Mr.. Balfour
that Lord Curzon reconsider his deter
mination. In a final dispatch, however,
dated August u, Lord Curzon says:
| THE main question is not the choice
of an individual, but one Of the princi-
| pies underlying q future change in our
administration. am reluctantly driven
to the conclusion that the policy of his
/ majestys government is based on prin-
ciples that I could not conscientiously
carry into execution. In the interests of
the new organization it is desirable that
should be relieved of my duties with
as little delay as possible
To this Mr.. Balfour himself replied
that he had with the most profound
regret submitted Lord Curzon's resig-
nation to the king
Supplementary dispatches, after the
receipt of the resignation, show, firstly,
that Lord Curzon and Lord Kitchener
were unable to agree over the details OF
| the reorganization: and, secondly, that
Lord Curzon at the time he left Eng
land expressed his entire disagreement
with the plan.
But" says he. 'I Loyalty commenced
the undertaking and resigned only when
1 realized that conflicts were certain to
arise between the commander-in-chief
and the rest of the government of IN
dia-''
| His concluding sentence reads:
Z reflect with sorrow how little justi-
ication there has been for the claim
you make of having rendered me your
constant support
Sympathy for Curzon.
q
public generally sympathy is ex-
pressed for Lord Curzon, viceroy of
| India, who for weeks has been con-
| fined to his bed from which he con-
| Quoted his fight single handed. There
is widespread regret that he has felt
himself obliged to resign.