Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-12-19
WAR CABINET MANI
BRITISH PREMIER ANNo,,
APPOINTMENT OF INs,nS w
COUNCIL OF FOUR.
CURzoN IS LORD PRESIDs,,
Henderson, Miner and aonar Law,
His Associates-Sir Edward y.
Heads the Navy--Balfour r..'
Secretary.

London, Dec. 12.-Official anno,.
ment was made on Sunday thot y
government had been constituted Us ut
war cabinet comprising the follo0,' wy
Premier--David Lloyd-George
Lord President of the Com
Earl Curzon, who also will be Gov
,nent leader in the house of LORDS
Arthur Henderson, minister with.
portfolio.
LORD Miner, minister without ~.
folio. pO''
Andrew Bonar Law chancouo,
the exchequer, who has been os.'
by the premier to act as leado,
the house of commons, and also
member of the war cabinet without
ing expected to attend regularly
An important point in this NM,
organization is that it concentro,,
far more power in the hands Of IN
prime minister than the British or,
tenn has ever known before N.
Lloyd-George's proposals to premia.
Asquith were for a war council !.
which the premier should not ba ,
member, although he should have n,
power of passing on its work.
Mr.. Lloyd-George has not hesi0tss
to place himself in the position mOrs
closely resembling a dictatorship tb,,
he was willing to give his predecessor
The war cabinet will hold daily ses
sions, directing the prosecution If
the war. Mr.. Lloyd-George, Lord Mn.
ner and Mr.. Henderson will be III.
chief directors of the war.
For practical purposes the govern.
ment will be by cabinet of four
The other members of the ministry
who are not in the war cabinet are,
Lord high chancellor, Sir Rober
Banntyne Finlay; secretary of STATE
for the some department, Sir George
Cave; secretary of state for foreign af
fairs, Arthur J. BalfOur; secretary Of
safe for the colonies, Walter Hume
Long; secretary of state for war, the
earl of Derby; secretary of state for
India, Austen Chamberlain; president
of the local government, Baron Rhond
da; president of the board of trade, Sir
Albert Stanley; minister of labor John
Hodge; first lord OF the admiralty Sir
Edward Carson; minister Of munitions
DR.. Christopher Addison; minister Of
blockade, Lord Robert Cecil food con.
troller, Baron Davenport; shipping CON
troller, Sir Joseph Patton Maclay pres.
ident of the board of agriculture, Row.
land Il. Prothero; president of the
board of education, Herbert A. L. Fish.
err; first commissioner of works, Sir Al.
fred M. Mond chancellor of the duchy
of Lancaster, Sir Frederick Cawley
postmaster general, Albert IllingwOrth;
minister of pensions, George N
Barnes; attorney general, Sir Fred
erick Il. Smith; solicitor general, Cor
don Hewart, X. c.; secretary Tor Scot
ldlNi' AhI. W UNIV iOl VI sluNONults JdlhVN
A. Clyde, X. c.; solicitor general for
Scotland, Thomas &. Morrison, X, c.;
lord lieutenant of Ireland, Baron Vim
borne; chief secretary for Ireland
Henry e. Duke; lord chancellor for
Ireland, Ignatius J. O'Brien, K. c.
Lord Northcliffe's organ, the Weekly
Dispatch, says that Premier Lloyd
Georges program comprises the fol-
lowing:
1. The arming of merchantmen 10
order to fight the submarine peril.
2. The preparation for the spring Of
fensive.
8. The mobilization of the civil pop
ulation between the ages of sixteen anC
sixty.
4. The making effective of the block
ade.
5. The rationing of the population
by the issue of food tickets.
6. The increasing of the home foo'