4 MAY 1918, Page 2

The resignations of Sir Hugh Trenchard, Chief of the Air

Staff, and of Sir David Henderson, Vice-President of the Air Board, were followed on Thursday week by the resignation of Lord Rothermere, the Air Miniater. In a letter to the Prithe Minister ho assigned ill-health as the cause of his retirement. Mr. Lloyd George in reply expressed the opinion- that Lord Rothermere, who took office last December, had extricated the Air Force from difficulties and .bestowed on its administration " an initiative which has given the

new force a real supremacy at the front." On Friday week Sir :William Weir, a member of a Glasgow engineering firm, who has sated as Director-General or Aircraft Production in the Ministry nUMunitions, was appointed :Air Minister