LONDON NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 21 May 1915, Page 5

LONDON NEWS.

THE COALITION CABINET.

A NEWSPAPER FORECAST

KITCHENER'S 300,000 ARMY.

HORSE RACING TO BE SUS-

PENDED

GERMAN BREACH OF FAITH WITH

THE VATICAN

LONDON, May 20. The Daily Chronicle says the reconstruction is thorough. The Unionists secure nearly half the offices, Labor receives one Cabinet position and one under-secretaryship, while it is believed the Irish party does not desire inclusion. The Chronicle forecasts :

Sir It. B. Finlay or Sir J. A. Simon will he Lord Chancellor.

Mr Austen Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Lord Kitchener and Mr Lloyd George, War Secretaries. Mr Bonar Law, Board of Trade. Mr A. J. Balfour, Admiralty. Lord Curzon; India Office. Mr Churchill, Colonial Secretary. The Daily News says Mr Churchill carried the War Council with him in regard to the Dardanelles. The Cabinet was committed by the movement of the ships before being consulted regarding the supply* of high explosive shells. Huge supplies were forwarded, but the proportion of shrapnel far exceeded the high explosive shells, which the army command demanded. Mr Lloyd George holds the opinion that a National Government is necessary. In the House of Commons Messrs Ellis Griffith and Cathcart Wason advocated compulsory service. Mr Tennant reminded the House of what the change meant. He did not deny the time might come when such a policy would be desirable. In connection with' Lord Kitchener's 300,000 army it has been decided that the maximum age will be forty years and the minimum height sixty-two inches.

The Government has requested the Jockey Club to suspend all horse racing, except at Newmarket, after this week.

The Foreign Office announces that Cardinal Gasparri informed Mr Howard, British Envoy at the Vatican, that Germany had suspended her consent to exchange civilians incapacitated from military service until Britain treats German submarine crews as prisoners of war. The Foreign Office informed Mr Howard that it regretted that Germany had broken faith with the Vatican.

Arrangements have been made for the closing of five minor shipbuilding yards on the Clyde to utilise the men for Government work.

The King yisited the Tyne shipyards and engineering works. The newspapers publish Mr Massey's message, heading it: "New Zealand's fine message."