5 JUNE 1915, Page 1

The new Privy Councillors are seven, and include Lord Robert

Cecil; Sir John Jordan, our Ambassador at Peking ; Francis Achind ; Mr. Harold Baker, one of the ablest of the younger Liberals, and until a fortnight ago Financial Secre- tary to the War Office ; Mr. George Cave, K.O., the well- known and greatly respected Unionist Member of Parliament; Mr. Henry Duke, K.C., who has done splendid work in pre- siding/over a War Compensation Inquiry; and Mr. J. M. Robertson, M.P., until recently Under-Secretary at the Board of Trade. Among the new Baronets are Sir Gilbert Parker, Sir Henry Norman, and • Mr. Goulding. There are twenty new Knights. Among these are Mr. Chiozza Money ; Mr. 0.8. Loch, late Secretary to the Charity Organization Society, an honour which could not have been better deserved ; Mr. Rabindranath Tagore, the poet; and Dr. Rash Bohari Ghose, an Indian barrister.