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that the Cabinet is regarded as an educational 

 establisiiment in many-sided statesmanship. The 

 average man, who considers that the headship of one 

 of the great departments of Slate is an office to which 

 the training of a Ufetime is necessary, is somewhat 

 bewildered when he finds these positions of world- 

 wide responsibility passed from hand to hand, until 

 three or four of them have been held in less than 

 half-a-dozen years by the same man. The most 

 significant exchange of offices is that between Mr. 

 McKenna and Mr. Churchill. Mr. Churchill's 

 presence at the Admiralty may perhaps be traced 

 more surely to Mr. Churchill's desire to avoid a 

 conflict with Labour than to any desire for more 



But all the re-shufriing of national 

 The Revolution aii{j international cards in Europe 

 China. is of small moment compared with 



what has been going on in China. 

 - In three weeks the government of one-fourth of the 

 human race appears to have passed from the 

 hands of the Manchus, and has been secured, 

 under a paper constitution more Radical in some 

 respects than the British, for the people of China. 

 The Empire has been long seething with dis- 

 content. Plans of drastic political transforma- 

 tion had been cherished for years. But the 

 e.\i)losion came on October loth, when the Viceroy 

 of Wuchang, the centre of the Chinese railway 



Photograph liy] 



Mr. C. E. Hobhouse. 



The new member of the Cabinet. 



[C. I'amtyk. r'wtognt/ili ly] \Elliolt and Fry. 



Mr. J. M. Robertson, M.P. 



A new nieiiiUer ot the Ministry. 



vigorous preparation of the Navy for possible European 



complications. The new appointments are as 



follows : — 



Lord Privy Seal — Earl Carrington. 



Home Secretary — Mr. McKenna. 



I'ivst Lord nf .'\<lmirally — Mr. Churchill. 



(-,'hancellor Duchy oi Lancaster — Mr. C E. Ilobhuiise. 



I'rcsident Board of Aijricultiire— Mr. Runciman. 



('resident Board of Education — Mr. J. .'V. Pease. 



Kinancial Secretary Treasury — Mr. McKinnon Wood. 



Einancial Secretary to the \Var Oftice — Mr. H. J, Tcniiant. 



Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade— Mr. J. M. 



Robertson. 

 UnilerSccretary Foreign Affairs— Mr. F. D. .\cland. 

 Under .Secretary Colonics — Mr. .Mfred Emmott. 

 '.Secretary Board of .At^riculture — Lord Lucas. 

 IJeputv Speaker antl Chairman of Committees —Mr. J. IL 



Whiiley. 

 I tepiiiy rdiairinan — Mr. DonaM Maclean. 



systetn, executed four ringleaders of a revolutiotiary 

 centre whicli he had just discovered. .'Vll the 

 provincial troops in atid ar<Hind \\"iiihang promptly 

 mutinied. The Viceroy fled fur liis life, and 

 the insurgents proclaimed a Republic or Reformed 

 Government. Hankow was captured, along with 

 Mint and Arsenal ; the Manchus were massacred. 

 Rut, in marked contrast to previous rebellions, the 

 rebels issued a proclatnatioti warning anyone against 

 injuring foreigners, and promising faithfully to respect 

 all obligations assumed by China towards the outer 

 world. They made it perfectly clear that their attack 

 was directed against the tyrantiy of the Manchus. 

 Great alarm etisued at Pekin, where it is stated the 



