BRITISH ADMIRALTY.
THE COMMITTEE'S CRITICISM
(Per Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, January 19. Admiral Sir Charles Madden (formerly fourth Sea Lord) told an audience at the United Service Institution that he was naturally surprised to leafn of the Select Committee's inquiry because he read of it then for the first time. ■ _ "I thought that as I was chief ' of the staff I might have been consulted."
A Parliamentary Select Committee on the Estimates reported recently that substantial reductions in the Admiralty staff could be made without impairing the Navy's efficiency. Th'e committee pointed out that while the personnel of the Navy had decreased from 151,000 in 1914 to 102,275, and the number of ships in commission or reserve from 619 to 394, the Admiralty staff had increased from 1900 to 3026.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 85, 20 January 1928, Page 4
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