Important changes have taken place in high military com- mands.
Sir Charles Monro succeeds Sir Douglas Haig (now, of course, in supreme command of the British Forces in France and Flanders) as eommander of the First Army. Sir Charles Monro returns from the Mediterranean loaded with honour for haring inspired the magnificently successful withdrawal from Anzac. Sir Archibald Murray, who has done immensely valuable work, and done. it with coolness and steadiness, as Chief of the Imperial General Staff, succeeds Sir Charles Monro. Sir William -Robertson, Chief of the General Staff in France, succeeds. Sir Archibald Murray. as.Chief of the Imperial General Staff. As we said last week, we look forward to admirable guidance- from him ; his experience, in France will enable him to control the Imperial General Staff with great authority, and are is sure to add to a reputation which has already become. something like- a legend both inside and outside, the Amy. Major-General R. Whigham. comes home with Sir. W. Robertson as his deputy. Major.GeneralL_Kiggell,Assistant to the Chief of the ImperialGeneralStaff, will. become .Chief of Sir Douglas Haig's Staff.
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