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Teua lea autres asemplaires origineuK sont fHmds en eemmencant par ia premiere pepe qui comporte une empreinte d'impreasion ou d'iNuatration et en terminant par la demiAre pag* U EM Moin SlrMI ^°cfiMtlii'> toward hidi, aa you aro awaro, tho Ifilitia Counoil hat eonaia rttly boon workinir. 9. Hince tiie Council oamo into being, when it found a large h ymn«t«r. 1 Chiel Raflii t Huff Ofllotr, KncioMt*. 1 AMt. UlNoUir HunpliM aad TnuMport. 1 PriMiHil M*dk»r Oflkmr. 1 Staff Oinr to l'.M.O. 1 PHnoinkI Vntariiutry OAow. t Ami. iNrMtor (hrdaM • BtorM. \ Coanwiyl PkvntMto' 1 D*t)l. Aat. Uinotor i .' rfmManta. 1 Diitrim BMraok Oflkxr. 17. Tha followinf table showi tha oompoaition of the headqitarten of an Eai^iih territorial diviiion and a (^anadian military diatrict .-ide by aide : — Efigtand. Cntiada. \ O.O.C. 1 DO.C. 1 Oenenl Staff CHBocr. \ i n a a X Uep. Airt. AdJU knd Or. Mr. QmmX. I "•°-'^ I AclDiiniitmtir* M«dio»l Otfloer. \ t p \i o 1 Sanitanr OfllMr. J 10.C.a Artilknr. 1 Staff Captain, Artillery. 1 O.O.R. EnciiMM* 18. It will be obaerved that, while the Canadi. sominand ha&Jquartera are by far the smaller, the two run on parallel lin h, and i - work of tha office is similarly allotted. There would be no difficulty thcrefoia, in expanding the Canadian com- mand headquarters as desired. 19. It will be seen that t^i 'ame reuu < i-wiierally applies to the Canadian dis- trict hesdquarten as comparea ^' h an Engii h division, but that the English organ- ization has, in addition, an O. c. i.rtillery a-^d an O. C engineera. 20. So far, therefore, as system goes, there is no difference in principle; and thr Canadian command headquarters could remain as it ia, with certain additions to ita Btafl, principally an officer to perform the duties of the ' general officer in charge of adininistration.' Agoin, inosmuch as, in a divisiop, the O. C. artillery would prob- ably be a selected senior ortillery officer o^ the active militia, and as the same course might be followed for the O. C. engineers, where no senior officer of the permanent force was available, a district headquarters might easily be transformed into a divi- sional headquarters. 21. The serious difficulty is that, while we perhaps have a sufficient total number of permanent staff officers, we have but a very few who are properly trained and fully understand a staff officer's duties. This is noticeable already where there are only four commands to be provided for, r..d the efficiency of the force already suffers thereby. • DEPAaTMEVT Of MtUTiA AND DSfMVCU \ 1 QEORQE v.. A. 191 « irJS: ^ ^»i°irt«r «> abwlutdy fwe lund. by far the bert pUm would be to unport • nnmber of leleoted staff ofleoa from England to fiU thoee of thVmore im! 5KI TT^r^ "^ '^ '»' '"«* "^ Canadian Xr! « n^^vS ^for ^ n«t four year^ and to train, «, to apedc. ' underrtudiea.' who ahouM b. «S!2L w"5"* ^' '^f ^^ ^ '•**• B»* *»>» ^oM inyolw diaplSJr an* rapenedinff. for a time at leaat. a conrideraUe number of senior oflkHaJTTor nJS# of whom have yet earned their fuli penuon. or reached the age limit To ded w°S them would present many difficulties. 1 I JiJ^i'n *^'* *!>« |°'Port«tion of a few English officers wiU be decided on' 1 suggest the foUowing as the best method of procedure:— r M ?!!?* T^ * ""^T i^ Pl««» 0* « M the number to be erentually formed I an 'cSif 7«,^ command headquarters u, at present, deciding, however, to add! « .„T^ ^^' l»«''*«»«"»t-<»Jonel) in charge of administration' to each as soon! as suitable officen can be made available. j hv th?.Sv *''?*"'^ ^"^"*'* ^*'- ^ '"*" -^ '1^* ^•^"'O'l' «»'' "o^nplete its staff! « tt! W ? ', **r"^ '*"* °®°"- ^* P""""*" o*^ «°« l>"««de of artillery, ! !^nll. 'J?!!!*"^^""*^ commanding the brigade would naturally bo the '0. C.! S K tS^. T ^' f "* °° f Pneers. Transfer the 4th Infantry Brigade from I t^^ -^-n^f !•' ^''- • ^ "°'°P'*V' th« '"'"nt'y- Take steps gradually trorganize : iti^« rSn"''"" " '^"■'^'- ^""^'' *° '■' *^^ ^°»'"« Colu J with ka.l- I • f*^ ^u™t' '^°** Division' from the troops of M.D. No. 2 (called '4th Divi- ' CoL^ S-VrT*"'^'"'™^' ^P"'*^' t««>«f""n«^ to it the \oth Bde CfI. ' vr.r5'°"S!^*®J*'' ?,*** *'y appointing an officer to command it Tperhaps a f=enior ! Mitia officer), a General Staff Officer, a D.A.A. & Q.M.G.. a senio^ fS ArS^ I CommiSd'SeSiSe^."""'' "'""'^ "'^*' ""^ """''^ "-"° '^^'^'^ -«»" *»>- ' .f rlti^r\*^° ^"'*^" 9°*'"° Command as it is (after detaching the Artillery at Cobourg). but organise the troops therein into the '8rd Division' (called '6tib' in the Inspector General's Report). The '2nd Cavalry Brigade' already exists and would remain under the Command Headquarters. wn„l5T^^^ll*^u ''*,'*^ Jy appointing an 'Officer in charge of Administration,' who would have the heads of Services and Departments under him, and an '0.0 ArtiN lery ' and ' O.C. Engineers ' for the Division. In course of time separate he Com- "' aJ K V-,T''^-*"*?- ^'^""^ ^' administrative services L "quir^ Abolish Military District 4 and its Headquarters. t -^^ T!f**J''? .Q"«*'t^ Command similarly to the Western Ontario Comman.l forming two Divisions Nos. 4 and 6. with Headquarters at Montreal and Quebec' ganii^'th^iC^s'^lfrma^yX'ri'^"^^^^^ " '' "' '"' "^ ^'^"*' ^'^^ "' 6th Division, Army Troops. »ttpJ„^t! ir^lf *^^^*^. Division could seldom train together as a Division, but attemp 8 should be made to bnng them together from time to time, and give them 11^"!!!° vp \^ t-.T",*""" '^ally existed. The D.O.C., M.D. No. 8 might com- mand the N.B. Mobile Column and the District, training the 12th Brigade with the ' former in Sussex Camp. . »ii MMPOttT or MAJOB OByBBAL Slh P. B. .V. LAKB f SESSIONAL PAPER Na SSb MOBILIZATION. 24. The Imperial Inspector General next diicuues the question of mobilMation, and urge* early completion of the reaenres of honei, stores and equipment required on mobilization, as well as the completion of the necessary mobilization regulations and plans for concentration. 26. He urges a closer supervision over the ' Service Rolls ' kept by Squadron, Battery, Company and Corps Commanders, and rRcommends partial test mobiliza- tions from time to time. 26. He points out the extreme importance of prompt mobilization and concen- tration of troops when an emorgency arises, and recommends the establishment of a ' Railway War Council ' to be charged with drawing up the necessary ' Time Tables.' 27. He declares that the number of Staff Officers available for working out the necessary mobilization arrangements is quite inadequate, and urges the early em- ployment of a number of trained and, selected officers for this purpose. 28. Nothing but want of funds and the scarcity of trained Staflf Officers has prevented the Council from carrying out this work. already. So far as the one Staff OflBcer available has been able to spare time from his other duties, the preliminary arrungements have, already, been tentatively framed. But there can be no doubt that this is a matter of urgent importance. So soon as ever the general plans take definite shape— but not, I think, before— the Railway War Council should be con- stituted. 29. The scarcity of trained StafE Officers constitutes the real difficulty of deal- ing with mobilization. The attempt to work out mobilization questions without real- ly competent officers is mere waste of time. I should recommend the following pro- cedure—First, obtain from England the two trained General Staff Officers whom the Inspector General states to be required at Headquarters. Name a selected Cana- dian officer to work with them as Administrative Staff Officer, and form the three into a Standing Mobilization Committee. Then let them proceed to frame the mobilization plans, under the supervision of the C.G.S., keeping in constant touch thrniifth him. with Commands and Districts outside Headquarters. Then, as oppor- tunity offers, attach to them selected Staff Officers of Commands or Districts, whom they should train to carry out and keep up to date the local mobilization work. TRAINING. 30. Turning to the subject of training, the Imperial Inspector General considers the standard of training efficiency reached by the Permanent Force to be satisfactory, but points out that the peace establishment of the various units is not large enough to enable them to attain really perfect field efficiency, and, at the same time, proper- ly supervise the training and instruction of the Active Militia. 31. He, therefore, recommends additions to the strength of the Royal Canadian Dragoons and Royal Canadian Horse Artillery. As you are aware, I have, in my re- ports, frequently represented this aspect of the case— and I am persuaded that the other branches of the Permanent Force, the infantry especially, are equally in need of augmentation. 32. Turning to the training of ib". Active Militia, Sir John French appears to have been favourably impressed with the system of training of and degree of ef- ficiency reached by the ArtiUery, so far as he was able to see it, but he was atruck by the absence of uniformity in the standard reached by the other arms. 33. He thinks that the proper role of cavalry in a country like eastern Canada has not been correctly appreciated by the force itself, and hence its training has 10 DBPAKTMBVT Of MIUTIA AVD DBrtVOB 1 QEORQE v., A. 1011 been ca wrong linei— irtsmuoh m 'shock' action ii practically impottible in aueh .doM country, and cavalry would have to act as Mounted Rifles. Their training should, therefore, tend towards securing efficiency in this direction. 84. With this I am entirely in accord. The Militia Council has, for the last five years, aimed at training the cavalry upon these lines — the fact that the cavalry are not given a sword but are armed with rifle only should afford sufficient proof of this. 85. He also finds that squadron officers generally are not sufficiently acquainted with their woric, and that nothing like enough troop and squadron instruction is given. Great care should, he says, be taken in the selection of young officers and N.O.O.'s, and they should receive a much more extensive preliminary training than now, with constant supervision. 86. He, therefore, strongly recommends that the annual training should be in- creased from 12 to 16 days for the cavalry, and that a definite syllabus of training should be laid down and enforced. This extension of the period of training was ad- vocated by me for all arms of the service in my last annual report, while a syllabus of training, such as is recommended, is already laid down and is carried out. 37. While he was not favourably impressed with what he saw of the training methods of the Infantry, yet he remarks that the manauvring power displayed at the field exercises was better than he had expected. 38. He animadverts strongly upon tiie excessive attention given by the Infantry, especially in City Corps, to ceremonial exercises and evolutions. His criticism is, no doubt, just, and I have, at all my inspections, consistently discouraged merely cere- monial drill. But old habits die hard, and it is natural, as Sir John French himself perceives, that the weaker coramandinf? officers should prefer the easy road to cere- monial smartness to the hard and less showy work involved in attaining service ef- ficiency. 39. He recommends a revision of the syllabus of training and the devotion of more time to company drill and manoeuvre. According to the 1910 syllabus of train- ing in camps, only half a day of the whole available time is now allotted to battalion ceremonial drill, and the same amount to the whole of brigade drill, including cere- monial drill. This might, perhaps, be still further reduced, but does not appear exces- sive It should, perhaps, be added that at only one camp did the Inspector General actually see infantry ceremonial drill in projfress. and that merely because it happen- ed to be the afternoon allotted for that drill. 40. He lays special stress upon the importance of strict attention to company training as the basis of all real efficiency, and points out that commanding officers have failed to realize this. I have made almost precisely the same criticisms in every one of my annual reports upon training. He considers that the instructors at tl c Infantry Schools should devote more attention to tactics and less to ceremonial drill than is at present the case. This is perfectly sound, but it requires constant super- vision to make sure that the instructions on this subject are strictly adhered to. 41. He considers that more telegraph companies of engineers should be raised. I understand that steps in this direction are already in progress. 42. In short, we are already working on the lines which Sir John French recom- mends and can cordially concur in his proposals. CAMP GROUNDS AND DRILL HALLS. 43. The Imperial Inspector General considers the acquisition and establishment of the camp at Petawawa to be the most important stop yet taken towards efficiency for war. It should be fully utilized, especially as all the other camp grounds seen in use are far too restricted in area. 44. At no camp which he visited in the east did he find sufficient ground available for training the troops, but, at the same time, more practicable allotment by the camp ■ held responsible for the efficiency of the units under their command. Under present conditions, the brigadier, as a rule, attends such in? r 'tions voluntarily. To nuke it obligatory upon him to do so, and to hold him resij^nsible for the efficiency of his brigade, is ra,Hinly a matter of finding money for drill pay and travelling allowance. It is no doubt desirable. 66. As regards staff officers, the Imperial Inspector General considers the officers employed 'to be well selected and to perform their various duties in a satisfactory manner,' to be well informed in administrative matters, but incomplete in their educa- tion as regards general staff duties. He recommends their being given special in- struction in these duties — this last is already being partially done, and the system should be further extended. 66. He com^nents severely upon the ignorance of those critics in the public press who consider the number of officers employed on the staff to be too great. In DEPAXrUMST or MlLlTtA ASD DMrWJtCW 1 QEONQE v., A. 1911 hit opinion s kirge and suiBciently trained body of atafl offioen ia indiapoiaable, and he Mjri that, at preaent, ' the militia atai! ia numericaily inadequate for the amount of woric required to be done and that the efBeient ataff officer ia underpaid.' 67. I concur in the whole of theae commenta. In another part of hia report he remariu that ' the staff at preaent maintained at headquartera and in the commanda appears to me absurdly inadequate.' As already seen, he haa recommended an addi- tion to the present staff of probably 10 officers for mobilisation purposes alone. The divisional organization whidi he has recommended will involve certain further addi- tiona to the ataff. 68. The Militia Council alwaya haa been well aware how largely the modem de- velopments of war and military science have increased the demanda for additional staff officers and for highly trained onea. But it has been obliged to cut >ts coat ac- cording to the cloth— the supply of qualified staff officers was i'.uiited, funds were limited, and it waa not thought desirable to draw upon the British Army for all the staff officers which were required, but rather to try and develop existing material in the permanent staff and force. 69. With the strongly expressed views of Sir John French before the public, it is to be hoped that the additions to the staff which he recomroenos may be concur- red in and provided for by Parliament in the Annual Estima.es at an early date. 60. BuC it must be dearly understood that Qeneral Staff du.ies and mobilization preparations demand highly trained and experienced staff officera. Every qualifie •noy cannot be doubted. PERCT LAKE. Jfa/or-GMaral, Iiuptetor Otnral September 14, 1910. A. 1911 I can tt ed eflei- iroL