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LAST GEDDES REPORT.

G

£100,000,000.

Bonomies amounting to £8,- Th2,300 year are recommended by the Geddes Committee in their third and final report.

shrink from suggesting any re duction in naval expenditure. We are, however, definitely of the

FURTHER ADMIRALTY

STATEMENT.

The Admiralty has issued the following farther statement:

Flans to Reach Economies of opinion, after our investigation, ths; this grave advice cannot be justified.

In our judgment this is a forings which have arisen with In view of the misunderstand- cible illustration of the financial regard to the response made by danger of accepting unchallenged the Admiralty to the appeal of the dicta of narsi and military the chancellor of the Exchequer. experts.

and to the suggestion made by the Geddes Committee, it is necessary to publish the following| facts.

In all three reports the total suggested national saving £86,844.175.

is

This is over £13,000,000 below the £100,000,000 they were asked To save; but the "five men of good will indicate other directions, including additional Navy and Army cuta, in which more than this sunt can be saved.

Their natural tendency is invariably to be satisfied with

short nothing

of perfection, to which must be added their inherent desire to maintain the prestige of the Service.

"We are convinced, on the facts submitted to us, that great economies can be realised in the This final report includes a fighting services if the control Tjoinder to the Admiralty of the Treasury over them is Memorandum. stressing the vastly increased and brought up "dangerof accepting unchallenged to the standard obtaining in the the dicta of naval and military Civil Departments. experts, and

"If our recommendations are recommending stronger Treasury control of the approved by you, we recommend fighting forces, with the adoption for these services the imposition of a basic line and a definite [of a definite ration ration.

THE COMBATANT SERVICES.

On the fighting services the Committee make this statement: Considerations of policy. of prestige and of safety play an important part in the estimates for these Services; but there is

the also same difficulty in enticising. thege estimates which arises whenever a lay man questions the expenditure of technicians and experts. The committee give the follow. ing letter, from the Board of Ad. miralty to the Treasury, dated August 2, 1921--

My Lords are satisfied that, with very few exceptions, the votes as fixed for the present

year are

of

The current Nary Estimates (1921-22) amount to £82,479,000. including a first instalment £1,958,000, for the four new capital ships which it had been decided to lay down.

The draft, or "sketch," esti- mates for 1922-23, submitted-to the Treasury in August 1921. amounted to £81,183,000, includ- ing the second instalment of £11,816,000 for the same four. ships.

In this section of the report re000,000 in the Navy Votes, other A net reduction of over £11,- ference is made to the payment than those for the new ships, bad, of £3.454 to each of the five naval therefore, been made by the Ad- Coromanders-in-Chief as "tabb miralty before the Geddes Com- money" in addition to the salarymittee began its investigations. of £4,000 a year.

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April 19d. 11h. 33m-Pressure has increased moderately at Vladivostock and decreased elightly from Formosa to Hong- kong and the Philippines.

The anticyclone covers Japan and a depression lies to the north- west of Weihaiwei.

Hoogkong Rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am. to-day, 0.00 inch. Total since January 1st. 11.90 inches, against az average of 9.18 inches.

FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS HNDING AT NOON TO-MORROW,

District Forecast.

to N.E. winds-

T/T Japan:

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THE NEXT ESTIMATES. Their conclusions in relation to The report of that Committee Middle Eastern services are:- suzgested a further redaction of So long as existing British £21,000,000, but only apecified responsibilities continue, we economies amounting to £14,000, cannot suggest any further 000 in all, including many modification of the arrange- which have since been shown to ments being carried into effect be either impracticable or based THE GREAT NORTHERN TELE- by the Colonial Secretary. On misunderstanding and ne On this basis it appears pos-indication was given as to how sible to reduce the Estimates for the further cuts were to be realis. 1922 23 to £10,500 000, compared, apart from the effect of thei ed with £13,003,700 in the Pro- agreements at Washington. visional Estimates, subject to

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As a result of those azree- any further economies that may not susceptible of

Schriiv-r Care Gardona, from reductions if the Navy is to be result from the successful demonte, and of collaboration with Yokohama.

the Geddes Committee and the maintained in a state of velopment of the Colonial

Chinwamaru, from Amoy efficiency at the One-Power Secretary's policy.

special Cabinet Committee pres

Mccrindle ooks from New #tandard laid down

The Colonial Secretary ex- by his

ided over by Mr. Charchill, the York, Retransmitted from Yoko- plained to us the policy under Admiralty have effected further bams, Majesty's Government.

There are, however, certain which, in substitution for a

large reductions, which bring Tisks - which 7 Lords feel

British Administration sup 1922-23 to under £61.000,000 and down the Estimates proposed for justified in accepting in the ported by large British forces,

an Arab State is being establish this total cut of £22,000,000 has present financial situation on the strength of the assurance of his Majesty's Government that a state of war within the

next few years nerd

not be regarded

ed (in Irak), in which order will now been approved.

be maintained by native levies,

with the aid of the Air Force.

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6008/9th, Ecuderp, from Yun-Hong 50 ct. pieces nenfou.

6578, from Ningpo. xible contingency, and by defer-battalions in the country year

Pawchai, from Kobe. ring or dispensing with eer. ago have now been withdrawn,

Yingfat c/o Enaging Des vices which would otherwise be and further reductions are pro- General Biran Hamilton has Voeux Road, from Shanghai. rogarded as essential they can ceeding. As a result of this presented to the Imperial War Tuwochang, from Shanghai. definitely omit items in 1922-23 policy and the accession of Kinz Museum library the aigret Chunsingkai No. 1 3rd floor Feisul, the country is more tran-instructions handed to him he Queen's Road West, from Sbang- amounting to £1.968,400. In their first report the Geddes" quil than before.

Lord Kitchener opon his taking bai. Committee proposed £21,000,000, The object in view is the over command of the Mediter. Kinkee, from Amoy. even without taking into accourt | establishment of a native Stateranean Expeditionary Force. Changyusting Yeewalai, from the great economies consequen- on a firm footing, with a con- This, library, which le housed at Dairen. tial the decisions of the sequent

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relief of the British 25, South Audley.street, London, Howcheung, from Amoy. Wasbirgion Conference.

burden. It is now considered possesses a practically complete! Hipkee 210 Rice Street (2), Palace Hotel Continuing their comment that the British expenditure in collection to date of bistorical from Amoy,

Shanghai. which may be regarded s8 1922-23 in this country should not and other works relating to the

5 196/8th, Pbilipp Victoria from reply to the Admiralty's mem- be 'more than £8,000,000 or 'Grest War. Historians

Singapore. and orandum-the Committes say: £3,500,000, and if all goes well the fudents will there fi da field of "In view of such pronounce- cost may be reduced to £5,000,000 | literature, comprising some 20,000 ment, a civilian might indeed or £6,000,000 in the next year. volumes, for reference purposes.

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Hongkong. April 13, 1922.

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T. F. CLAXTON, Director.

E.K. Observatory, April 19. 1922.

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Hongkong, April 19, 1922.

M. E. F. ÁIRTY,

Superintendent. Hongkong, April 13, 1922.

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