Major-General R. H. Haining who is to succeed Lieutenant-General Dill as Director of Military Operations and Intelligence is quickly returning to the Directorate in which he was Deputy until, last year, he was appointed to be Commandant of the Imperial Defence College. General Haining was formerly 9 Gunner officer and, in addition to distinguished service in the Great War In which he won the DSO. a brevet and six "mentions," he has the, for a soldier, unusual' qualifcation of being a barrister-at-law, having been called at Lincoln's Inn in 1919, General Dill whom succeeds is one of the outstanding younger generals and was chosen to take part in the "Staff" conversation following the recent German action in the Rhineland,
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