§ MR. HUNTI beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty what is the number of destroyers which Lord Charles Beresford will always have under his immediate command with the sea-going squadron of the Channel Fleet.
§ MR. EDMUND ROBERTSONThe Admiralty deprecate the introduction of the names of individual naval officers into Parliamentary Questions. According to present arrangements, which are still in process of development, there are forty-eight destroyers fully manned ready to be placed under the orders of the Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Fleet when necessary for exercises.
§ MR. EDMUND ROBERTSONNone, Sir.