Until Mr. Stanley Melbourne Bruce was asked , by Lord . Forster,
the Governor-General, to form a Government,; little was known of him outside- Australia. The Time:, always well informed on: Australian affairs, now seeks to supply the deficiency. Mr. Bruce is a young man for the great position of Prime Minister of Australia ; he is only thirty-nine, and looks several years younger. He is tall and was a great athlete at Melbourne Grammar, School—where Alfred Deakin, another Prime Minister,, received, his education—and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.; He- rowed- in the--Cambridge crew in 1904, when it beat Oxford by four and a-half lengths. Mr. Bruce bears traces of his distinguished War services, in France in his noticeable limp. He was invalided out of the Army in 1917, returned to Australia, and the following year won the Flinders-seat for the Nationalist Party—Mr. Hughes's Party-. In 1921, while travelling in Europe, he was appointed to represent Australia-at the League of Nations at Geneva, and he returned to the Commonwealth a made man. When Sir Joseph- Cook was appointed High Commissioner in London- Mr. Bruce became Treasurer in the Hughes Ministry.
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