Evening star., 1924-11-09

Secretary of state for the colonies
Lieut.. Col. Amory.
Secretary of state for War-Sir
Laming Worthington Evans.
Secretary 'of state for India-The
Earl of Birkenhead.
Secretary of state for air-Sir
Samuel J. G. Hoare.
First lord of the admiralty-Wil-
liam Give Bridgeman.
President of the board of trade
Sir Phillip Lloyd Graeme.
Minister Of health-Neville Cham
berlain.
Minister of agriculture and fisher
iesLEdward Frederick l. Wood.
Secretary for Scotland-Sir John
Gilmour.
President Of the board of education
Lord Eustace Percy.
Minister of Labor-Sir Arthur Steel
Maitland.
Attorney general-Sir Douglas NJ
Hogg.
The above-named constitute the
cabinet council The ministry Will
include, outside the cabinet proper,
about 10 other ministers and II un-
dersecretaries and parliamentary sec
| retaries, still to be designated.
The appointment of Winston
Churchill, who only recently under
| went transformation from Liberal
! to Conservative. to the most i'm
| portant cabinet post next to that of
| prime minister is something OF a
surprise. Mr.. Churchill is still a
| free-trader and his appointment is
probably a sufficient indication that
| the government will go slow in
| urging protective measures.
Among the notable defeats in the
| recent elections were those of Miss
! Margaret Bondfie1d, parliamentary
| secretary of the ministry of labor;
Charles E. G. Masterman, the dis
| tinguished Liberal, and Ben Tillett,
| a famous labor champion. One could
| wish to have seen Winston Churchill
campaigning in the old style with
coach and eight and all that sort of
| thing.
Eamonn De Valera, the Irish Repub-
| lican leader, is incarcerated in an
| Ulster jail Forbidden, under heavy
penalty. to enter Ulster, he neverthe-
less did SO some little time ago, but
| was quietly shot back across the bor-
der. He is not getting OF so easy on
| the second offense.
| The Viceroy of India has promul-
| gated an emergency ordinance aimed
| to check the exuberant development
| Of criminal revolutionary activities in
| Bengal.
Canbera, the federal capital now
a-building for Australia, in the midst
/ of the beautiful federal district OF
900 square, miles ceded to the federal
government by the state of New
| South Wales, has been connected by
railway "a distance of 20 miles) with
Jervis Bay, on the shore of which a
| plot of two square miles has been
ceded for a federal port.
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France.-M. Herriot was not en-
| couraged by the results of the. recent
British elections. His government is
endangered by a number of issues
as-the budget (now being dis
cussed by the Chamber), the revived
| clerical issue, the amnesty bill
(passed by the Chamber, but still to
| go before the Senate).
| 1t is reassuring to the friends Of
France to hear that the Morgan house
which a few months ago, when the
Poincare government was embarrassed
made a short-term loan Of $100, 100000
| to France with strict conditions at
| tached, has agreed to renew that loan
| as long-term one without the condi-
| tions.
| NJ. Krasin. one Of the most reasonable
Of the Bolshevist statesmen, has been
appointed Russian Ambassador at Paris
and Jean Herbette, one-tme foreign
editor Of LIE Temps, has been appointed
French Ambassador At Moscow,