The Government's White Paper, obviously intended as a reply to the demand for the cutting down of expenditure, attracted immediate attention when issued cently. The "Daily News" notes (with amazement)) that we are spending £14,546,850 more this year on the Mivistry of Munitions than we spent in 3914 on the British Navy, at a moment when it was faced with the unbroken might of the German Navy this year on the ministry of Ship-We are spending £2,350,353 more ping than we spent education before the war.
We are spending £1,114,473 more on the Ministry of Labour this year than us to run the it cost whole of the Post Office before the war.
We are spending £181,179 more on works and public buildings this year than we spent on old age pensions before the war.
We are spending £205,202 more on the Stationery Office alone this year than it cost as before the war to run the Stationery Office, Foreign Office, the Colonial and the legal and judicial depart" ments combined.
While the Admiralty had a staff of 4,400 to administer the pre-war Navy with a persond of 145,000, it now has a staff of 12,827, to administer a smaller Navy with a reduced personnel of 132,00.
While the Army to-day is not quite twice the size of the pre-war Army, there are now four omployees at the War Office where before the war there was only one.
The Ministry of Munitions—today employs six times as many people as the War Office did before the war,
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