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...President of the Board of Trade, Neville Chamberlain as Minister of Health, Edward F. L. Wood as President of the Board of Education, Sir Robert A. Sanders as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Sir Montagu Barlow as Minister of Labor. Baldwin combines the Chancellorship of the Exchequer with the Premiership for the time being. This is the first time that the two offices have been held by one man since 1880, when Gladstone combined them for the second time...
...Andrew Bonar Law did not go on a very long sea voyage. Instead, he crossed the Channel and stayed in Paris, where his health became worse?so bad, indeed, that his doctor insisted upon his returning to England. Now, after a protracted period of procrastination, he has resigned the Premiership, being physically unable to continue in that responsible position...
King George has thrust a pin into the bubble which for two long days after Mr. Bonar Law's resignation supported Lord Curzon under the rays of the spotlight as the probable successor to the English premiership. The bubble was large, but it was nothing more and in the clear sunlight of modern conditions it could not last...
...Premier renewed rumors of his impending resignation. People in close touch with him state that he has no intention of permanently retiring from office. Others who, with justifiable scepticism, point out that official denials are almost valueless, say that Mr. Law himself never expected to hold the Premiership for long, and that his state of health renders his position precarious...
...report that the mutineers allied themselves to the anti-Peking forces headed by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, lends credence to the belief that Dr. Sun, while, as he himself stated, not intending to set up a South Government in opposition to Peking, is in reality aiming at the premiership of the central Government. - The Peking Administration offered Dr. Sun the position of Director General of Disbandment of Troops. The offer was refused owing to the instability of the Government...