REDUCTIONS, Apparently None in Bloated Staff of Admiralty:
London, Oct, 17.
In pursuance of the policy of retrenchment the Admiralty" ai Hnounees that all K-class submarine: will be scrapped, except the ]which, with four L-class submarines, will form the reconstituted First Submarine Flotilla. The special reserve engineer officers will abolished and the special reserve royal marine officers will be reduced, The Second Cruiser Squadron. will bbe reduced, the Calliope being placed in reserve. One of the destroyer flotillas attached to the Atlantic Fleet will be reduced to the reserve, Reductions will also be effected in the number of tenders attached to {the harbour training establishment:
the home ports.—Reuter,
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