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deal of nonsenso is talked about the difficulty the War Minister would have under the system I advocate the universal system of overy War [ROM A MILITARY CORRESPONDENT.] Office, and of our own till quite lately--in con sulting anyone beside the Commander-in-Chief. The question of the ro-organisation of the That is because the difference between consulta- War Office, that hardy military annual that tive and executive functions is not understood. flowers with every fresh Parliament and every There is no reason why the Minister should not new War Minister, is to be left in abeyance for be assisted in all the larger matters of military the present in order that the new Commander-administration by a council consisting of the in-Chief may I allowed a voice in the raatter, Commander-in-Chief and the heads of the a voice that at present would have less weight military and civil departments of the War than later, owing to Lord Roberts's want of Office, bat in the execution of the measures or Price of Pall Mall. This is as it should the general policy determined at such a council be, for the anbject is an extremely difficult one, the Commander-in-Chief must be supreme and and not to be settled off-hand by an youthful must act through each lend of department, just legislator or military amateur.
as in the field wo cannot havo” half a dozen
TWO SEPARATE QUESTIONS,,
heads, but one, who will order his cavalry here. his artillery thora, his infantry elsewhere, and dispose of his departments—his transport emp- plies, hospital, and stores in consonance with the conclusiona arrived at, perkaps at a council of war, at which all the heads of departments and leading generals have been present.
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It is a question dependent for its right solution upon an intimate knowledge, not only of our military system a knowledge posse by few soldiers, und still fewer civilians but of the British Constitution, with which it is and most ไม่
ssly involved. closely
No one who has not had some actual experience of the work.
To get the War Offen out of its present tavss of the various departments in Pall Mall in qualitol to give a decision upon the matter, is one thing, to establish a perfect organisation and until the new Commander-in-Chief has is another, and, while one is asy enough, the become familiar with his surroundings it is another is so difficult that it will
probably revor well that any decided change should be postpon reach accomplishment. Probably same ich ed. The War Office is about the xt-abused system as the following would last 6t in with Government offen in England, but it has its the constitution of the country on the one hand and the needs of the Army on the other. Over good points, and these should not be altered. There are two separate questions connected all the civilian War Minister responsible to with our army which are too often confused, the House of Commons and to the country for even by those who pose as authorities, namely, his department. At the head of the military army organisation, and War Ofice organim branch the Commander-in-Chief, with ilo uznal tion-questions that have not nearly any staff of leads of departments, namely, the connection. We may have an excellent army adjutant-general, the quarteronster-general, system but a bad
War
Ofice, or, vice seven, we the head of the artillery, and the head of The head of the Intelligence may have a good War Offcs system but a badly. organised army. In: do with a set of circumstances not paralleled in supérior staff officers Outside the purely any other country. The army system has to be military brunch another, superintended by a formed on a basis of voluntary enlistment, and soldier in the shape of a mastor-general of targo standing garrisons ontside the shores: the ordinance, who should be responsible for the War Office has to fall in with a rigid the pattern, mannfectam, and supply of arm- Parliamentary coatrol und a constitutional formaments and stores, matters that come somewhat of government.
outside the sphero of most commoders-in-chiof, but should yet be entrusted to a soldier, who, in Jake Germany, for instance. Here we kinda his military capacity as an officer of the army, bead of the State who is far more than the bond should, of course, bo subordinate to the Com- of the army in names only, an actual eaumandormander-in-Chief. The finance department in-chief who, although he cannot devote his should be presided over by a permanent civilian, time exclusively to military matters, makes and not one changing with every change of thers his first pre-occupation, and who that Government. There should also be a permanent knows the present Emperor can doubt that Under Excretary for routine matters, on the heel did the occasion arise" he would emulate the of the civil branch. The whole of the above dacks of his grandfather, and lead his armies should form the Secretary of State's Military in pusson in the field P He has beneath him Council. The soldiers named as immediately War Minister, who is invariably a dis- euborilidata to the Commander-in-Chief, to- tingabled soldier, and thus the array is really gether with one other, the Military Soerotary, controlled by soldiers who actually direct and should compose the Commander-in-Chief's are responsible for its military policy. Turn Council. If, with such an organisation as this, to France, under a totally different form of fur greater authority were given to the generals government. Here the bend of the State, as commanding districts and foreign stations, thus a rule, is a civilian (although Marshal Mac-decentralising work, while fixing responsibility, Muhon was an oxception), and only the unminal we might find a War Office that would do its hand of the army. There is also a War work well, and yet fit in with our Parliamentary Minister und Comzunder-in-Chief, and both, system.-Daily Graphic. almost invariably, are distinguished soldiers. In the last thirty years there have not. we think, been more than two civilian Ministers of War, although it is fair to add that eno THE was one of the best Ministers of War France has had. As a rulo," however, France, like Germany, allows her army to be controlled, certainly as to organisation, discipline, and training, by soldiers, not civilians, and this is the case with avery Continental Power.
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In overy War Offee the military side is similarly organised. There is over all the Commander-in-Chief. Under him are a num- ber of departments the Adjutant-General's dealing with drill, discip.lue, and training; the Quartermaster-General's, dealing with barracks, movements, food, transport, supply, etc.; the Artillery or Ordnanen dusling with guns and munitions of war; the Engineer department, 43 ad De Venx Road. Shipchandlere, dealing with fortifications and engineering; Schmalers, Riggers, Commissiou Agents and, dually, & department, variously named, and Storekeepers; Sole Agouts dealing with intelligence and the preparation For Shipowners Composition (Grey-of plans of campaign. The financial branch is Fund Brand") and Blundell, generally separate from the military side. This Spence & Co.'s Cousposition. organisation holle, with slight modißcutious of detail, in every Continental War Offer; until TAILORS
| quite recently it hald with us, although we have never given to the Intelligence Department the importance it assumos, under the name of the
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THE, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. This is undoubtedly wrong from 'whatever point of view it is regarded. An army is essentially an affair of discipline and subor- dination, in which one man must command, however advisable it may be for lua to delegate authority to his subordinates and to consult them on the details of their respective depart- ments. And a War Office-the head and front,
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It is not necessary to centralise everything in that man ho must and will trust his subordinates. If he does not, it is either his fault or that of his subordinates, and the diffinity can be set sight by removing one or the other. But to take from the Commander-in-Chief his attributes of command and set up in his place a civilian War Minister does not lessen the evil of contralisa- 9am to 5pm.tion, as has been argued, it but transfers it, and transfers it from a trained and experienced Great proportion of catarsets and diseases
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to a civilian who, however able, has been selected those having word deficiency in the construction for his political importance, and who, in nine of the eyes-the many years of Eye Strain cases ont of ten, has had absolutely no military ending in serious forms of disease. Glasses of State is a necessity of our constitution. but education or experience. A civilian Secretary specially adapted in youth to these requiring he should not be permitted to usurp the func thena savo and preserve the sight.
tions of a military Commander-in-Chief. Constantly rearring headaches, spells of personal xolations of these two important dimness when mating, weak eyes, the letterseils have nothing to do with the question. which is independent of any personal relations, running together; any of these symptoms indi- and is a matter of a good or a bad system. If -cats a deficiency in the form of the eye requir❘ these relations are bad they make a bad system
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Hongkong, 24th Juns, 1901.
FOR KOBE
THE Steamship
THE
"TSUBUHIKO MARU"
will be despatched un above,os SATURDAY, the blh July, at 3.F.M.
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