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21. Page 40, Table C (ii).-There is a slight discrepancy between columns (2) and (4) of this Table. Apparently 6 transport animals should be entered under the heading of "Existing Transport Establishment."
22. Pages 41 and 42, Table C (i.).-The recommendations contained in para- graph of the Colonial Defence Committee's Remarks, No. 156 R, with regard to utilizing the food resources of St. Lucia and other West Indian islands, instead of obtaining supplies from England on imminence of war, have been accepted in the present revision of the Defence Scheme, and 2,400 tins of condensed milk, which would be sent out as opportunity offered, are all the food stores now required from this country. The Committee suggest that the Governor of the Windward Islands should now make the necessary arrangements for sending, on imminence of war, to St. Lucia, the supplies required from St. Vincent, and that he should communicate with the Governor of Trinidad with regard to those that are to be sent from that island. Any arrangements that are decided on should be entered in the Defence Scheme.
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23. Page 50, Toc, paragraph 2.—It is here stated that 20 men will be required to clear front of Maxims." The Table on p. 59 shows 10 men for this work.
24. Page 50, Toc, note. The proposal to provide an extensive system of land mines, as an adjunct to the Toc defences, requires careful consideration by the War Office before adoption. It should not have been brought forward in the body of the Defence Scheme, but should have been made in the covering letter of the G.O.C., or in a separate communication.
25. Page 51, lines 16 and 17.-The proposal to widen and improve the road between Didon and Trois Pitons remains as in the 1896 revision of the Defence Scheme. This proposal was adversely commented on in paragraph 22 of the Colonial Defence Committee's Remarks, No. 156 R.
26. Page 52, paragraph 2 (a).—Reference is here made to improving the efficiency of the coast signal stations. It is not quite clear if by these are meant the 9 look-out posts described on pp. 25 and 26. At one of these, viz., the heights east of Marigot Bay, a hut is to be built in time of war. At the others masonry huts are apparently to be constructed in peace, though no definite recommendation to this effect is made in the G.O.C.'s covering letter. The Committee suggest that the War Office should call for a special report on the subject.
27. Page 68, paragraph 5.-It is not understood why the question of utilizing the Station Hospital at the Morne or the Colonial (Victoria) Hospital as a Base Hospital should be left undecided when dealing here with the ad interim garrison, while for the full garrison it is definitely stated that the Victoria Civil Hospital will be appropriated to this purpose. The safety of the hospital at the Morne is independent of the question whether the ad interim or full garrison is at St. Lucia, and the Colonial Defence Committee consider that the arrangements for taking over the Colonial Hospital immediately on receipt of the order to mobilize should at once be made with the Colonial authorities, who will have to make corresponding arrangements for removing the native sick who may be in hospital at the time. Such arrangements are vaguely alluded to in Chapter III (p. 68) and Chapter V (p. 101) of the Scheme, but do not appear to have been definitely settled by the military and civil authorities in consultation.
25. Page 73, paragraph 8.-The hospital at Barbados is here called a "Section Base Hospital," while in paragraph 3 (v) on p. 71 and in paragraph 10 on p. 73 it is referred to as the "Auxiliary Base Hospital at Barbados." The latter appears to be the more convenient term.
29. Pages 73, 74, and 75.--The proposals that I N.C.O. as pack store and linen storekeeper for the Auxiliary Base Hospital at Barbados (p. 73, paragraph 8), a supply of cacolets (p. 73, paragraph 9), and 12 R.A.M. Corps orderlies to act as ward
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