13 SEPTEMBER 1902, Page 3

An important list of army corps appointments was pub- lished

by the War Office on Friday. General Sir John French is to assume command of the First Army Corps on Septem- ber 15th, and Major-Generals A. H. Paget and Sir Bruce Hamilton are appointed to command divisions under him. Major-General Sir Charles Knox is to command a division in the Second Army Corps, and amongst other minor appoint. merits we may note that of Colonel Plumer to an Infantry Brigade in the First Army Corps. The Royal Commission on the South African War, it may here be noted, has now been completed by the appointment of Sir George Taubman-Goldie, K.C.M.G., a choice which could not have been bettered.