29 JULY 1916, Page 2

The Mesopotamian Commission is to have as Chairman Lord George

Hamilton, ex-Secretary of State for India and ex-First Lord of the. Admiralty. The appointment is a thoroughly, good one, for Lord George Hamilton has held with honour and dis- tinction the highest and -most responsible of Imperial posts. He is no partisan, and, as he showed in his Presidency of the Poor Law Commission, knows as well as any man living how to conduct a great and difficult inquiry. Lord Donoughmore, the very able Chairman of Committees in the Lords, is one of his colleagues, and he will also have the assietance of. Lord Hugh Cecil (one of the-ablest and acutest of dialecticians) and of Sir Archibald William- son and Mr. John Hodge.