Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1915 — Lord Kitchener Holds Job In Reconstructed Cabinet. [ARTICLE]
Lord Kitchener Holds Job In Reconstructed Cabinet.
The English cabinet has been reconstructed to correct some - weaknesses and to recognize by coalition both great parties, selecting the ablest men in each to secure concerted action during the war ■•crisis. Lord Kitchener, who was being criticised for having sent shrapnel instead of heavy ammunition to fight the Germans in their trenches, was retained in the cabinet as secretary of war, but his duties are limited by the creation of a new office known as “minister of munitions,” which is David Lioyd-George. Arthur J. Balfour is the new first lord of the admirality and Winston Spencer Churchill is chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster ' Sir Edward Grey is minister of foreign affairs and Herbert H. Asquinth is to retain Hie premiership.
