BIRKENHEAD RESIGNS.
Lord Peel Succeeds To India
Office.
HONOUR CONFERRED,
(British Official Wireless.) (Received 12.30 p.m.)
RUGBY, October 18.
The correspondence dealing with Lord Birkenhead's withdrawal from Cabinet is officially published. In a letter to the Prime Minister, Lord Birkenhead says: "I am exceedingly grateful to you for having released me from my obligations at an earlier date than we discussed some months ago. I should not have asked you to do so had not some balance of private convenience, which I have explained to you, intervened. Still less should I have done so had there been the slightest prospect that I could have remained long enough at the India Office to be in the discussions and decisions which the report of the Simon Commission will require."
The King has approved Lord Birkenhead being appointed a Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India, also Viscount Peel, to be Secretary of India in succession to Lord Birkenhead, and th" Marquess of Londonerry to be High Commissioner of Works in succession io Lord Peel.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 248, 19 October 1928, Page 7
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