London, Oct. 24.
Mr. R. McKenna has resigned his position as First Lord of the Admiralty.
The Cabinet will be recons-fructed as follows. Earl Carrington will become Lord Privy Seal, in place of the Earl of Crewe Mr. McKenna will be Home Secretary, and Mr. Winston Churchil new First Lord of the Admiralty Mr. C. E. H. Hobhouse, Financi Secretary to the Treasury, becomes Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, in place of Mr. J. A. Pease, who becomes President of the Board of Education, in succession to Mr. Walter Runciman, who replaces Earl Carrington as President of the Board of Agriculture.
Appointments outside the Cabinet include that of Mr. T. McKinnon Wood, under-secretary to the Foreign Office, to be financial secretary to the Treasury that of Mr. F. D. Acland, ex-financial secretary to the War Office, to be under-secretary to the Foreign Office; that of Mr. A. Emmett, chairman of Committee of of Colonel J. E. B. Seely. Lord Lucas, parliamentary under-secretary to the War Office, will become parliamentary secretary to the Board of Agriculture, and Mr. J. H. Whitley, Liberal member for Halifax, will be proposed as successor to Mr. Emmett as Chairman of Committee of Ways and Means.
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