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LATEST LIST OF CHURCHILL WAR TEAM

London, To-day.

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Further Ministerial ap- pointments in the Churchill Government were nounced from 10, Downing Street last night, as fol- lows:

Attorney-General-Sir Donald Som→

ervell.

Solicitor-General Sir William Jo-

witt.

Paymaster-General-Viscount Cran-

borne.

Under-Secretary for Foreign Af- fairs Mr. R. A..Butler.

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Under-Secretary for the Dominions.

Mr. G. H. Shakespeare,

Under-Secretary for the Colonies- Mr. G. H. Hall.

BLOCKADE TASK MADE EASIER

London, To-day.

A Ministry of Economic War- fare official stated yesterday that the contraband control bases at the Downs and Kirkwall are bo- Ing closed.

A skeleton staff may be kept at Kirkwall.

The official explained the new position In: the shipping world resulting from the German in•

vasion of Norway and the Low Countries was responsible.

Much of the shipping of these countries: wagonów available to the Affles.-Reuter.

11 PER CENT.

INCREASE IN

Secretary for Overseas Trade-Mr. U.S. NAVY

T."Harcourt Johnstone.

Pensions-Sir Walter Womersley. Postmaster-General-Mr. W. S. Mor-

rison.

Lord Advocate Mr. T. M. Cooper.

Financial Secretary to the Treasury

-Capt. H. F. C. Crookshank.

Secretary for Petroleum-Mr. Geof-

frey Lloyd,

Washington, To-day.

The Senate naval commit- tee has issued a report en- dorsing the proposed 11 per cent. increase in the navy and urging the modernisation of air, naval and submarine Secre-bases on both the Atlantic

and Pacific coasts.

Civil Lord of the Admiralty-Capt.

A. U. M. Hudson.

The following Parliamentary taries have been appointed:- Education-Mr. James Ede. Supply-Mr. Harold MacMillan. Agriculture-Mr. Tom Williams. Food-Mr. Robert Boothby.

The report says: "Serious considera- tion should be given to the question of acquiring, if possible, places in the Caribbean area for additional United

Aircraft Production-Col. J. J. Lle-States naval bases.

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Air-Capt. Harold Balfour. Board of Trade -Major Gwyllim Lloyd George.

Shipping Sir Arthur Salter. Health-Miss Florence Horsburgh. Secretary for Mines. . . Mr. David Grenfell.

"A fleet air base in the south-east

-- corner of the Caribbean would un- doubtedly add to the security of that area as well as to the ability of the United States Flest to Insure the in- tegrity of the Monroe Doctrine." The committee decided the United States is not vulnerable to direct at- tack by any means "save those with which a thoroughly modern navy and air force can deal adequately."-Reu-

and Mel Rose's Orch. The Marquis of Dufferin Mel Rose's Orch. Ava and Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd ask-ter.

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The new Government comprises 20 CONCOCTION

Conservatives, II Labourites, four Simon Liberals, three Opposition Liberals, one National Labourite, and seven National representatives like Lord Hankey, Sir John. Reith, Lord: 20 | Beaverbrook and Lord Woolton,

Notable among previous Ministers who have not yet received new of fices, are Sir Samuel Hoare,, Lord-1 Zetland, and Lord Stanhope. Arrangements will have to be made to find a seat for a non-member, Mr.

́London, To-day. Allegations: from German sources are circulating in Japan that large numbers of British tourists from Malaya are landing in the Dutch East Indies.· ́

These tourists are said to be. Bri- Harcourt Johnstone, who is a sup-tish soldiers, with many officers porter of Sir Archibald Sinclair Reuter.

BRITISH TRADE AT RECORD HIGH FIGURES

among them, and are compared to the German tourists who were the advance. guard. of the German inva- sion of Norway.

It is authoritatively these German stories

false.

stated here wholly

are

No British soldiers, either in uni-

London, To-day. Britain's April overseas trade im-. ports totalled £109,986,119, the high form or civilian clothing, are land- est since October 1929, and exports ing, or have landed, anywhere in the amounted to £48,299,823, the highest Dutch East Indlez-Reuter. since July, 1930.

Re-exports totalled £4,434,290, the highest since the war began:--Reuter.

BROADCAST MADE FROM BUCKINGHAM PALACE

London, To-day. Queen Wilhelmina's broadcast was made from Buckingham Palace and afterwards the Dutch National An- them was played-Reuter.

LINERS FOR AMERICA ALL BOOKED UP

Home, To-day. All American ships leaving Ital are fully hooked, mostly, by Americar from Holland and Belgium.-

RATION CUTS

London, To-day

Lord Woolton, the Minister of Food, last broadcast an announcement of the following reductions in the weekly ration allowances:-

Butter, from eight to four ounces. Sugar, from 12 to eight ounces. Bacon will soon also be reduced. Glucose will be rationed from June 1. The reduction in the sugar allow- ance was necessitated by the failure

Reuter, of the West Indies crop.

Lord Woolton concluded: "Whatever happens you shall have food. That is my responsibility. I am satisfied with'

th our stock and transport plans. the Nazis know this they can- not atarve, us." British Wireless

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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 16, 1940.