CHANGES AT THE ADMIRALTY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1912, Page 7

CHANGES AT THE ADMIRALTY

WHAT MR. CHURCHILL PROPOSES. OFFICIAL MEMORANDUM. By Telcgrapu.— preßi AMOciatlon.— Copyright. ' LONDON, Bth January. Mr. Winston Churchill, in an official memorandum, explains the necessity for the First Lord of tho Admiralty possessing a war staff like a general in the field. He proposes three divisions, namely, one dealing with intelligence, seoond with operations, and third with mobilisation, each having equal status uiider a captain of standing, the whole to ba controlled by the Ch"iof of Staff, who will be responsible to tho First Sea Lord. The Staff is to be purely advisory, and will have no administrative functions. The personnel will represent most grades and every specialist branch, by men fresh from the sea and returning to the sea- fairly frequently. The Staff will be specially charged with the training t#£ officers, while special * training at the War College will be an essential feature of the scheme. To enable 'the First Sea Lord to artvi.se on grand' issues, without being burdened under detail, an additional Civil Lord will' be appointed to take up tlu> business and commercial transactions, enabling the Third Sea Lord to attend solely to naval construction and' equipment. The cost of th© war staff will be met by th© abolition of four Admiralty yachts, effecting an annual economy of £34,850. Admiral Bethel has been appointed to command tho East Indian Station. Captpu-j Alexander Duff, the present Director of Mobilisation, joins the war staff in a similar capacity.