Several changes in the Cabinet were announced on Saturday last.
Lord Milner and Mr. Long resigned office ; Mr. Long was unhappily compelled to do so by illness, which has deprived the Unionist Party of a wise and honest counsellor. Mr. Churchill succeeded Lord Miner at the Colonial Office. Lord Lee of Fareham took Mr. Long's place as First Lord of the Admiralty— an office for which he is admirably qualified, although he will be greatly missed at the Ministry of Agriculture. Sir L. Worthing- ton Evans became Secretary for War and Sir Arthur Griffith- Boscawen Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries. Mr. Churchill announced on Monday, in saying farewell to the War Office, that as Colonial Secretary he would have charge of the mandate territories in the Middle East, namely, Palestine and Mesopo- tamia, and that he would propose definite and much-reduced Estimates of expenditure in those regions.
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