THE WAR CABINET.

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 March 1917, Page 5

THE WAR CABINET.

ITS PRBNOIPAL FUNCTIONS. STATEMENT MY LORD MILNER. LONDON, Miiruli H. Lord Milncr stated that special War Cabinet ; will provide for the time bein »■ soiaiolhiiij.v resembling an Executive Council i>f Kmp'ire capable of tak\v.\x deeL.iom: atlVctmg Hie course of ihc war. They wanted tlie Dominions to havo a share in the conduct of the war in addition (•* (he war burdens and desired to benefit l>y their couu-s.-l. 'ili.' Cabinet wished to give their view, and wi.ihe: the weight to which they were entitled. SCOPE OF OSSCUSSSON, DATE OF MEETING NOT EiXED. LONDON, March 11. * In t!i? House of Common: 1 , Mr. I'mar Law said that the reprcs,entatjvi", lii the Imperial Conference would ]„. a l ; | ; , i,, bring up any subject for disvt!.>M"ii. The exact date was in if vol lived, but the conference would meet very s.oou, RKOPd.EMS To UK CONSIDEREDLONDON, March 11. Lord Milner, presiding at a lunchr.'ii to Ltt. lion. .Sir Edward Mori Is, the Newfoundland representative to the Imperial War Council, Maid that the guiding principle oi a new era of

construction alter '-he war wan to promote a careful and systematic .study of the Empire's, productive capacities: also to co-ordinat' iudustrie.; with a view tj making' the Empire independent and sufficient as regards vital baaic industries. The Empire was ijuitu capable "I doing this and the

special War Council of the I'liupire would he an event of great and immediate importance for the conduct of the war in which we were concerned, hut of t:r.:;iter significance a* regard,; the future Imperial Conferences which they would attend. The Cubibet's wmk would he entirely devoted to war problem.-! and the problems, arising out of the war.

lie hoped and believed that the time would come when the supreme direction of Imperial affairs would be veiled in an authority directly responsible to the constituent portions of the Empire.