Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-11
THF NEW
 BRITISH
 CABINET
Is Headed by Lloyd George as Premier and First Lord of Treasury.

London, Jan. 1O.-The new cabinet of Premier Lloyd George, was an nounced tonight It presents few sur prses. The question the British newspapers are asking is whether MT. Lloyd George will rule his cabinet or whether his Conservative advisers will dominate him.
 The majority of the members of the cabinet in high places are conserva- tives, notably Andrew Bonar Law, i Earl Curzon, Arthur J. Balfour and ] Niscount Miner. Only four years 1 ago, their party regarded Mr. Lloyd 1 George as the conservatives today re- gard the Bolsheviki.
 The Premier is pledged by his cam paigning speeches to sweeping pro- gram of Liberal reforms, particularly the giving of land and houses to work | ing men and discharged soldiers His principal advisers are regarded as representative of land owning inter-
 g, who, following tradition, would n'are barriers in the way of such reforms.
 The ministers without portfolio, George Nicoll Barnes and Sir Eric Geddes, have important duties for Which there are no cabinet places. 8lr Barnes will represent labor at he Paris peace congress, while Sir Erie has undertaken the management of demobiization.
 One innovation is the selection for the first time of an Indian as mem Der of the government, Sir S. Fl. Slnha, having the place of under sec retary for India. Another is the ap- pointment of Cecil Bisshopp Harms worth, brother of Lord Northcliffe, to succeed Lord Robert Cecil as under secretary fo rforeign affairs. London, Jan. 10.-The new British cabinet will be headed by David Lloyd George at Premier and First Lord of the treasury, according to an official statement issued this evening. The oth- CT members of the government will be:
 Lord Privy Seal and leader of the house of commons: Andrew Bonar Law; President of the Council and leader in the house of Lords, Earl Curpon. of Kedleston.
 Ministers without portfolio-George Nicoll Barnes and Sir Erie Geddes.
 Lord Chancellor, Sir F. E. Smith; Home Secretary Edward Shortt; Un- der Secretary, Hamar Greenwood; Foreign Secretary, Arthur J. Balfour; Under Secretary, Cecil Bisshopp 1ar- mswOrth: Secretary for the Colonies, Viscount Milner; Secretary of war and of the air ministry (which have been combined, Winston Spencer Churchill; Under Secretary, Viscount Peel lTinancial Secretary to the war office, Henry w. Forster; Secretary for India, Edwin S. Montagu; Under Secretary, Sir s. H. Sinha First Lord of the Admiralty, Walter Hume Long: Parliamentary Secretary. Thomas J. Mcnamara; President of the board of trade, Sir Albert Stanley; Under Sec retary, w. F. Bridgeman Depart ment of overseas development and in-- telligence, Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, who also is appointed an additional urider secretary to the board 0 ftrade President of the local government board Dr. Christopher Addison; aPr liamentary Secretary, Stephen Walsh, Laborit; Secretary of Agriculture. R. B. 'ProtherO; Minister of Education, H. A. l., Fisher Secretary of Minis try of munitions, which is to become eventually the minister of supA.ly, Andrew Weir; Food Controller, Geo. H. Roberts, Minister of Shipping, Sir J. P. Maclay; Minister of Labor, Slfa Robert Stevenson; Home Minister fol Pensions, Sir Lalning Worthingto Evans; Minister for National Servid and Reconstruction, Sir Aucklad Ge des Chancellor of the Duchy of La caster, The Earl of Crawford; Eli Commissioner of Works, Sir Afr Mond; Attorney General. Sir Gordoffs Hewart; Solicitor General, Sir Err nest Pollock; Postmaster eneral, AL bert Holden Illiug Worth; Paymaster eneral, Sir Joseph Compton, -Rickett; Cha ncallcr of the EXchenuer Austen