26 AUGUST 1916, Page 2

Sir Charles liforun, the very distinguished General who has been

in command of an Army in France, who has held, that is, a position in the military forces of the nation second only to that of the Commander-in-Chief at the front, has been appointed Com- mander-in-Chief in India. Sir Charles Monro succeeds General Duff, who returns to England to give evidence before the Mesopotamia Commission in regard to the action of the Indian Governmelt. Though the presence of Sir Charles Monro in Europe might have proved of the greatest importance had ill-health or accident tempo- rarily deprived our armies of the service of Sir Douglas Haig, we feel sure that the Government were right in sending him to India. In a war like the present you cannot sterilise too many good men as under-studies.