Notes

Admiral of the Fleet Lord Jellicoe of Scapa, until recently Governor General of New Zealand, was created an earl and chose as his second title Viscount Brocas of Southampton. Earl Jellicoe is the last of the supreme War leaders to receive an earldom.*

The War Office announced the appointment of General Sir George Francis Milne to be Chief of the Imperial General Staff in succession to General the Earl of Cavan, retiring. The appointment is not effective until February. General Milne is Commander-in-Chief of the Eastern Command (military district in England) and was toward the end of the War in command of the Salonika Army.

At the Eighty Club (of Asqutihian Liberals), Lord Oxford (former Premier H. H. Asquith) and ex-Premier George swore eternal peace. The Mr. Asquith said the Mr. George was a seer and a gladiator, possessed of unfailing sympathy for the common people. Mr. George referred to the "characteristic warm and generous tribute" of his chief. Apparently there is now no rift in the Liberal lute. Differences had arisen concerning the Party's leadership when Mr. Asquith was elevated to the peerage. As Lord Oxford, he retains the Liberal leadership.

Said Lord Reading, Governor-General of India, at present on leave in England, to the Reading/- Chamber of Commerce: "On the day I was appointed Vicerory, I recalled the day when, after being two months moored at the quay in Calcutta awaiting a cargo of jute, I stood under the fo'c'sle head taking my small part in heaving away on the capstan bar.

"It never occurred to me, toiling barefooted on the deck and moving among the hands of the fo'c'sle that the time might come when I would live in India as head of the administration, the representative of the King." Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary of War, announced that despatches of the first Baron Amherst,* relating to America before, during and after the War of Independence, are to be made available to the public.

* Admiral Beatty, Field Marshals French and Haig all were made earls.

/- He took his name after the town.

* The famed "Lord Jeffrey Amherst," British general, for whom Amherst College (Amherst, Mass.) was named.