11 AUGUST 1917, Page 2

Important changes at the Admiralty were announced on Tuesday. Admiral

Sir Cecil Burney, who was Second Sea Lord, will be employed on special duty, and is succeeded by Vice-Admiral Sir Rosalyn Wemyes. The new Second Sea Lord is to be relieved of work eon. fleeted with the personnel of the Fleet. Mr. Alan Garrott Anderson, who is connected with the Orient Line, has become Controller—the post lately hold by the First Lord. Sir W. Graham Greene, the Secretary, has accepted the Secretaryship of the Ministry of Munitions, at Mr. Churchill's invitation. His assistant, Sir Oawyn Murray, is acting as Secretary until a permanent appointment is made, and will be assisted temporarily by Mr. R. IL F. Dunnell, the secretary of the North-Eastern Railway, the company for which Sir Eric Geddes worked before the war.