Controlling the Home railways, as Chairman of the Railways Executive Committee appointed by the Ministry of Transport, we have that well-known and able officer, Sir Ralph Wedgwood, the former Chief General Manager of the London & North Eastern Railway, who, during the last war, held important Transportation appointments in France and elsewhere. Another most happy appointment is that of Mr. Gilbert S. Szlumper to the post of DirectorGeneral of Transport and Movement at the War Office. Mr. Szlumper vacated the position of General Manager of the Southern Railway to engage in his new work—a job which he actually commenced to study a quarter of a century ago as assistant to Sir Herbert Walker, then Chairman of the Railway Executive Committee functioning during the 19141918 struggle. Large numbers of other able railway officers are now engaged in various capacities in the transportation department of the forces, and as time goes on there will be made other appointments to the Transportation Staffs from the Home railway service. In the last war Railway transport officers on all Fronts were largely drawn from the railway world, while the Operating and Construction Companies of the Railway Troops of the Royal Engineers consisted in the main of skilled men from transporation systems all over the Empire. Incidentally, your correspondent, then a somewhat younger man, had the privilege of commanding operating units in France and Belgium, and also serving as Railway Transport Officer in France and Germany.