Financial Secretary.
(Right Hon. T.J. Macnamara, M.P.)

Permanent Secretary.
(Sir O. Murray.)

The principle of isolating the work of planning and directing naval war
operations from all other work, in order that it may receive the entire
attention of the Officers selected for its performance, is now being
carried a stage further and applied systematically to the organization
of the Operations side of the Board and that of the Naval Staff.

In future the general distribution of duties between the Members of the
Board belonging to the Naval Staff will be as follows:--

FIRST SEA LORD AND CHIEF Naval policy and general direction
OF NAVAL STAFF of operations.

DEPUTY CHIEF OF NAVAL War operations in Home
STAFF Waters.

ASSISTANT CHIEF OF NAVAL Trade Protection and
STAFF anti-submarine operations.

DEPUTY FIRST SEA LORD General policy questions and
operations outside Home
Waters.

The detailed arrangements have been carefully worked out so as to
relieve the first three of these officers of the necessity of dealing