Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-21
VICEROY CURzON
RESIGNS OFFICE
EARL OF MINT0 APPOINTED
HIS SUCCESSOR
TROUBLE WITH KITCHENER
Dissatisfaction Comes TO Head Upon
Governments Refusal to Make
Nal. Gen. Barrow Military
Supply Member
TROUBLE WITH KITCHENER
nv Anrociated Press.

by Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 20.-The resignation
Of Lord Curzon of Kedleston as viceroy
of India and the appointment of the
earl Of Minto as his successor was an
nounced at the Indian Office today. Ac-
cording to the Correspondence which Is
issued in the form of white book 1t
appears that Lord Curzon's resignation
was cabled to that office on August IL.
The correspondence shows a decidedly
bitter feeling between Lord Curzon, the
Indian office and Lord Kitchener, COM
mander in chief Of the forces in India,
over the new plan of army administra-
ton in India. Lord Curzon's dissatis-
faction came to a head with the refusal
of the cabinet to appoint Maj. Gen. Sir
Edmund Barrow on Lord Curzon's
recommendation, military supply mem-
ber of the council. Replying on August
to the refusal of Mr.. Broderick sec
retary of staff of India, to make this
appointment, Lord Curzon requests
that the government reconsider its de-
cision, ''in order to enable me to accept
the responsibility which I infer his
rnajastys government still desires me
to assume"
Mr.. Broderick again refused to COM
ply with the request for the appoint
ment of Maj. Gen. Barrow, and Lord
Curzon replied as follows:
"It is apparent that his majesty's
government denies me that confidence
which alone can enable me to serve 1t,
and attaches a fundamentally different
Interpretation from myself to the modi-
fications, upon the acceptance Of which
alone 1 consented to remain In office.
The situation, therefore, remains where
1t was when resigned in June. If the
government is unable to accept my
views / request the premier to place
my resignation in the hands Of his
majesty"
Refuses to Reconsider
TO this Mr. Brodrick replied that
there was a request from Mr.. Balfour
that Lord Curzon reconsider his de-
termination. In final dispatch, how
ever dated August IL, Lord Curzon
says:
"The main question is not the choice
of an Individual, but one Of the princi-
pies underlying a future change in our
administration. am driven to the con-
clusion that the policy of his majesty's
government is based on principles that
I could not conscientiously carry into
execution. In the interest of the new
organization 1t is desirable that l 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
England expressed his entire disagree
ment with the plan.
''But," he says, IL Loyalty commenced
the undertaking and resigned only when
/ realized that conflicts were certain to
arise between the commander in chief
and the rest of the government of
India"
His concluding sentence reads:
IT reflect with sorrow how little justi-
fication there has been for the claim
that you have rendered me your con-
stant support"