16 DECEMBER 1916, page 2

Mr. Lloyd George Has Also Done Well To Retain Lord

Robert Cecil as Blockade Minister, and Lord Derby will be excellent at the War Office. Mr. Rowland Prothero, the new President of the Board of Agriculture, has a profound......

It Will Be Seen That While All Mr. Asquitles Liberal

colleagues have retired, Mr. Lloyd George has ensured the representation of Labour in the War Cabinet in the person of Mr. Henderson. As for himself, he was confronted with the......

Further, According To The Daily Mail Correspondent At...

there are hints of new and more deadly inventions for intensi- fying the German naval activity. Finally, a German Chemist is said to have perfected a new form of attack,......

We May Now Give A List Of The Principal Members

of the Govern. ment :- THE WAR CABINET. Mr. LL George Prime Minister et Mr. Henderson Without Portfolio. First Lord of Lord Milner .. Without Portfolio. the Treasury. Mr. Boner......

While Dealing Elsewhere With The Proper Answer To Give To

Ger- many's peace proposals we have pointed out that the German Government no doubt hope to rally the drooping spirits of their people by indignantly denouncing the rejection of......

The Answer Of The British People And Of All The

Allies to such threats is easily given. They will still further raise the Sibyl's price for peace—the passion for which, as is shown by the latest news from Berlin, is literally......

By The End Of Last Week It Became Known That

Mr. Lloyd George intended to govern with a very small Cabinet of at the' most six members. In the result it has turned out to contain only five- s redaction from the......

There -has Been A Universal Consensus Of Opinion In Favour

of the appointment of Sir Robert Finlay as Lord Chancellor. It is riot too much to say that no man is more highly respected at the Bar. One feels that the fine oath of the Lord......

To Begin With, The War By Submarine Is To Be

pushed withont Imitations. Since Germany is forbidden the use of the sea, she means, or rather hopes, by the use of submarines to destroy the mer- eantile shipping of the world,......

The Liberal Members Of Both Houses Met At The Reform

Club on 'Friday week, when Mr. Asquith ,explained• the , cireuseetatee' which bad led up to his ;resignation. There bad been, he said, "a Well-organized, carefully engineered......

Another Principle Which Guided Mr. Lloyd George Was His Con-

viction that he could profitably introduce into his Ministry men of proved capacity who have not hitherto had any Parliamenta0 experience. Yet another departure was the creation......

Of War News As Regards The Western, Eastern, Or Balkan

fronts there is little or none, except that the Rumanian Army is still unbroken. It retires fighting, and will no doubt continue so to do 'until the positions prepared in its......