578 



by Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg, who was followed in the office of Second Sea 

 Lord by Vice-admiral Sir J. R. Jellicoe. Among other recent appointments, Admiral 

 the Hon. Sir H. Meux succeeded Admiral Sir A. Moore as Commander-in-Chief of Ports- 

 mouth, and Admiral Sir A. Berkeley Milne succeeded Admiral Sir E. Poe as Commander- 

 in-Chief in the Mediterranean (announced in April 1912). 



The personnel of the Royal Navy for 1912-13 is shown as follows, (i) Sea Service: (a) 

 Fleet: flag officers 28, commissioned officers 4727, subordinate officers 740, warrant officers 

 2070, petty officers and seamen 97,811, boys (service) 2,601; total 107,977. (6) Coast 

 guard: commissioned officers 99, chief officers and second mates 205, petty officers and 

 seamen 2796; total 3100. (c) Royal marines: commissioned officers 420, warrant officers 

 67, staff sergeants and sergeants 1300, band ranks, buglers and musicians 1708, rank and 

 file 13,296, band boys 272; total 17,063: total for sea service 128,140. (2) Other services 

 7860. (3) Addition under supplementary estimate 1500. Total personnel 137,500. 



Army. In February 1912 a joint Army and Navy School of Aviation was estab- 

 lished for the instruction of officers in both services. A British aeronautical service 

 was instituted and designated the Royal Flying Corps, with naval and military sec- 

 tions, and a central flying school on Salisbury Plain administered by the War Office. 

 The Army Aircraft Factory was renamed the Royal Aircraft Factory. 



General Sir C. W. H. Douglas succeeded General Sir J. French as Inspector-General 

 of the Home Forces on March 5, 1912. 



The following figures show the personnel of the Army on October I, 1911, the numbers 

 wanting to complete the strength being given in brackets where necessary: (a) Regular 

 Army: British establishment 176,539 (4271); Indian establishment 77,770 and 1,886 

 supernumerary; staff and departments, etc., 2474 (106); army reserve 138,531 ; special reserve 

 60,931 (30,288). (b) Territorial Force: officers, N.C.O's. and men 264,911 (49,445) j 1 

 permanent staff 2786 (35); reserve 656. The above figures give a total of 724,598. There 

 are also to be added: militia 1655; reserve 205: militia (Channel Isles, Malta and Bermuda) 

 permanent staff 178 (i) and militia 5243 (319): volunteers (Bermuda) permanent staff 

 4 (i) and volunteer officers and volunteers 225 (89). Grand total 732,108. 



Local Affairs and Finance: United Kingdom, 1909-10. For England and Wales 

 the revenue of local bodies amounted toi68,i57,555 2 and expenditure to 166,104, 559; 

 for Scotland to 18,854,650 and 18,918,681 respectively, and for Ireland to 8,752,498 

 and 8,598,435 respectively. Outstanding local loans in England and Wales amounted 

 to 536,002,529, including 49,529,222 in respect of loans taken over or raised by 

 the Metropolitan Water Board; for Scotland the figure was 65,827,182, including 

 capitalised values of annuities, and for Ireland 22,066,834. Total, 623,896,545. 



London Government. The assessable value in the county of London in 1911 amount- 

 ed to 44,669,412. The net outstanding debt of central and local bodies on March 31. 

 IQIO, was 111,043,088. The central rates for the administrative county (excluding 

 the City of London) for the year ending March 31, 1912, amounted to 53. 3-995d. in the 

 pound; leaving to be raised locally differential rates in each borough. The amounts of 

 the localised rates varied from is. o.oosd. in Westminster (St. Jarnes) to 6s. o.oosd. in 

 Poplar; the amount of the total rates varied from 6s. 4d. in Westminster (St. James's) to 

 us. 4d. in Poplar. A return published by the London County Council in November 

 1912, compared the cost of the municipal services in London and six other large cities. 

 The total net cost per head of the population was found to be highest in London 3.38. 

 9.50!., against 2.i6s.n.9d. for Manchester; 2.8s.9-7d. for Leeds; 2.53.5^. for Liver- 

 pool; 2. 35.6. id. for Bristol; 2.35. 2. gd. for Birmingham, and i.i8s.8.4d. for Sheffield), 



those circumstances to act as he did, after consulting with the Prime Minister _and inform- 

 ing the King, whose sanction had been obtained. After conveying his view to Sir K. Bridge 

 man in so kind and diplomatic a letter that the gallant Admiral at first failed to realise the 

 situation, he had then put it so bluntly as Mr. Bonar Law considered, "brutally" thai: 

 no misunderstanding was possible. But after the full explanation given by Mr. Churchill 

 it was clear that, if his method was open to criticism, his action was not, and that the attacks 

 on him in other respects were unsupported by any material evidence. 



1 Includes both permanent staff and territorial officers for O.T.C. The Territorial 

 force was stated to include 9236 officers and 252,152 N.C.O.'s and men on October I, 1912, 

 giving a total of 261,388, and a decrease of 3523 on the total of the previous year. 



2 Including 22,570,459 of loans and 2,679,183 of other receipts accounted for by the 

 Port of London Authority. 



