The Imperial War Cabinet, which met for the first time
last year, began its second session on Tuesday under Mr. Lloyd George's presidency. The six members of the British War Cabinet were joined by Lord /di/nor, who has ceased to be in the War Cabinet, Mr. Balfour, Sir Eric Geddes, Mr. Long, and Mr. Montagu, and by the Prime Ministers and other Ministera of Canada and New Zealand, the Prime Minister of Newfoundland, and Mr. Burton, the South African Minister of Railways, who, with General Smuts, sots for General Botha. Mr. Hughes, the Prime Minister of Australia, and Sir Satyendra Sinha, the representative of India, had not then arrived in London. The Imperial War Conference, for the discussion of various general problems affecting the British Empire apart from the war, assembled on Wednesday, with Mr. Long as President. Part at least of the Conference's proceedings will doubtless be pub- lished in due course, but the Imperial War Cabinet, the supreme Executive for the Empire, keeps its own secrets like any other Cabinet. In these very critical days it is well that the leading men of the Dominions should be in London.
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