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PLLC.O.885
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(a) Four River Class destroyers
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Complement, &c.
Officers and Men.
(6) Four 1st-Class torpedo boats (coastal destroyers)
Total four
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Total eight
Numbers,
Pay, &c.
£
each
70
8,000
33
1,500
280
32,000
132
18,000
412
50,000
The cost of pay and allowances has been estimated on the basis of naval rates, including colonial allowances at 3s. a day, but excluding victualling, clothing, and pensions.
A complement for the parent ship has not been drawn up. The number of men would depend upon the manner in which the destroyers are located.
Complement of River Class.
1 Lieutenant.
1 Sub-Lieutenant.
1 Chief Gunner or Gunner.
21st-Class Petty Officers.
2 2nd-Class Petty Officers.
13 Able-Bodied or Ordinary Seamen.
1 Leading Signalman.
1 Qualified Signalman.
Included in the foregoing.
1 Sightsetter for 13-pr.
7 S.G.
1 Torpedo Instructor.
1 Torpedo Coxswain.
1 Leading Torpedo Man.
3 S.T.
1 Engineer Lieutenant of less than
8 years' seniority or Engineer Sub-Lieutenant.
1 Chief Engine-Room Artificer.
3 Engine-Room Artificers.
3 Chief Stokers.
3 Leading Stokers, 1st Class.
3 Leading Stokers, 2nd Class.
31 Stokers.
1 Second Ship's Cook.
2 Domestics, 2nd Class (Wardroom).
70 Total complement.
Complement of Coastal Destroyers.
1 Lieutenant.
1 Sub-Lieutenant.
1 Chief Gunner or Gunner.
2 1st-Class Petty Officers.
2 2nd-Class Petty Officers.
10 Able-Bodied or Ordinary Seamen.
1 Qualified Signalman.
Included in the foregoing.
2 Sightsetters for 12-prs. 2 S.G.
1 Torpedo Instructor.
1 Torpedo Coxswain.
2 Leading Torpedo Men. 4 S.T.
1 Chief Artificer Engineer or Arti-
ficer Engineer.
1 Chief Engine-Room Artificer.
1 Engine Room Artificer.
2 Chief Stokers.
2 Leading Stokers, 1st Class.
6 Stokers.
2 Domestics, 2nd Class (Wardrooni).
33 Total complement.
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II.
MEMORANDUM WITH REGARD TO THE BEST MEANS OF CONSULTING THE COLONIES IN COMMERCIAL NEGOTIATIONS.
(April 1907.)
At the Colonial Conference of 1902 the following Resolution passed:→
was
"That so far as may be consistent with the confidential negotiation of Treaties with foreign Powers, the views of the Colonies affected should be obtained, in order that they may be in a better position to give adhesion to such Treaties."
Mr. Chamberlain, in a despatch of the 1st November 1902, stated that His Majesty's Government had taken note of the Resolution, and would gladly give effect to it so far as may be found practicable. The object of the present Memorandum is to suggest means for extending its practical application.
There are three main questions to be distinguished :-
:-
(a) The general form of the stipulations which an ordinary Treaty of Commerce and Navigation should usually contain, i.e., the "model form " of the Articles of such a Treaty.
(b) The conditions to be prescribed in the Treaty regulating the adhesion
and withdrawal of Colonies.
(c) The special modifications in the "model form
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made necessary
by the circumstances of a particular negotiation, and the particular rates of duty to be inscribed in the Tariff Schedules (if any) attached to a particular Treaty.
As regards (a), the most recent form of draft Articles adopted by his Majesty's Government is appended to this Memorandum. Any observations with regard to these Articles which the Premiers may wish to make will be welcomed, and an endeavour made to meet their views so far as practicable.
If it should, unfortunately, not prove possible to arrive at a form which will meet the views both of the Imperial and Colonial Governments, it is worth consideration whether the difficulty might not be diminished by sub-dividing the Treaty into two parts, (a) commerce, and (b) navigation. It is with regard to (b) (navigation) that divergence of views is most probable, and if Treaties were sub-divided as suggested it might be possible for a Colony to adhere to (a) without necessarily accepting (b).
might be possible (if this course is acceptable to the Colonial Premiers) to make some progress with the discussion of the "model draft" before the conclusion of the present Conference by means of special Conferences between Colonial and Imperial Representatives.
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This exchange of views might to some extent lessen the necessity for consulting each colony on each occasion with regard to "model Articles which have been approved once for all.
(b) There is a consensus of opinion that adhesion and withdrawal on the part of Colonial Governments should be made as easy as possible, inasmuch as, even after the discussion, the terms of the model draft may in some respects not be satisfactory to them. The attention of Premiers is particularly directed to the most modern form of the Colonial Articles as embodied (with slight modifications) in the Roumanian and Bulgarian Treaties of 1905, and the Servian Treaty of 1907:—
"The stipulations of the present Treaty shall not be applicable to any of His Britannic Majesty's Colonies, Possessions, or Protectorates beyond the seas unless notice of adhesion shall have been given, on behalf of any such Colony, Possession, or Protectorate, by His Britannic Majesty's Representative at
before the expiration of one year from the date of exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty.
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