The new appointments are as follows : Rear-Admiral Tron- bridge
is to be Chief of the War Staff and Captain Thomas Jackson, Director of the Intelligence Division, succeeds the present Director of Naval Intelligence, Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir Alexander Bethell, who is appointed to be Com- mander-in-Chief of the East Indies Station. The present Director of the Mobilization Department, Captain Alexander Duff, retains that appointment, with the title of Director of the Mobilization Division of the War Staff, and Captain George Ballard is chosen to be Director of Operations. Finally, Sir Francis Hopwood, who was successively Chief Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade and the Colonial Office, and since 1910 has been Vice-Chairman of the Development Com- mission, joins the Adniiralty Board as additional Civil Lord, where his wide and varied experience, his mastery of com- mercial problems, and his unfailing tact should make him an excellent " business manager." We defer detailed criticism of the scheme, which has been favourably received, until our next issue, but may draw the attention of our readers to the letters in our correspondence columns which deprecate the claim of originality for changes which are only a necessary evolution of the existing system where they do not revive earlier reforms.
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