JAPAN. The programme for 1909-10 has not been officially announced. It is, however, reported that the new programme includes 4 battle ships of 20,000 tons displacement and 5 armored cruisers of 18,500 tons displacement. RUSSIA. The rebuilding programme provides for 4 large battle ships of about 22,000 tons displacement. Foreign warships completed during 1907. Austria. United States. PERSONNEL OF THE PRINCIPAL NAVAL POWERS. Number of officers and men for each 1,000 tons of total effective warship tonnage built and building.a Num Num Number Number per- per 1,000 tons. per- per 1,000 tons. ber of ber of per- per 1,000 tons. per 1,000 tons. per- Number Number Number ber of ber of per per sonnel. sonnel. per 1,000 tons. 50 tons, nor vessels over twenty years old unless they have been reconstructed and rearmed. a This table does not include transports, colliers, repair ships, torpedo depot ships, converted merchant ships or yachts, gunboats less than 1,000 tons, torpedo craft of less than The number of officers given in the table for France, Italy, and the United States are the numbers allowed by law. In the cases of great Britain and Germany the numbers are from the annual report of the navy, 1908. given are from the naval estimates for 1908-9, and probably represent the average numbers for the year. The numbers for Japan are from latest data. The numbers for Austria c The United States has no engineer corps; in Great Britain the amalgamation of the executive branch with the engineers has begun. d France. Italy, and Japan have no chaplains. Many of the British chaplains are also naval instructors. The warrant officers of the British and United States navies have no exact equivalent in other navies. The most closely corresponding positions are found in the navies of The navies of Great Britain and of the United States are the only ones in which there are enlisted men other than bluejackets for service on board ship; in the British nav y the marine officers will be gradually replaced by naval officers who specialize for duty as marine officers. [No. 14.] PAY AND ALLOWANCES UNDER "PAY OF THE NAVY”— DEPARTMENT LETTER. NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., January 4, 1909. SIR: Referring to the provision of the naval appropriation act approved May 13, 1908, calling for a complete schedule or list showing the amount in money of all pay under the provisions of the act and for all allowances for each grade of officers in the navy, including retired officers, and for all officers included in the act and for all enlisted men so included, the data submitted by the department in response thereto contained in the note under Pay of the navy" (p. 231, estimates of appropriations, 1910) and in Appendix "I" (pp. 656 to 659, inclusive, estimates of appropriations, 1910) is herewith supplemented by the following tables: 1. A table showing the money value of the allowances for heat and light to officers on the active list of the navy. 2. A table showing the money value of the allowances for heat and light to officers on the retired list of the navy. 3. A table giving a detailed statement of the estimate for the allowance for commutation of quarters for all officers on the active list, on shore, not occupying public quarters. 4. A table giving a detailed statement of the estimate for the allowance for commutation of quarters for all officers on the retired list, performing active duty on shore, not occupying public quarters. 5. A table giving the money value of the allowance "Rations" for officers who are entitled to that allowance. The table showing the heat and light allowance was obtained by allowing each officer the full value of the allowance. As a matter of fact, however, all officers do not receive the full value of the allowance, as when heat and light is supplied in kind only the actual amount used is paid for. The total allowance for heat and light, as shown in Tables 1 and 2, is $192,840.88, while during the fiscal year 1908 about $152,000 was expended for heat and light. Referring to the statement for the allowance "Commutation of quarters," it will be noted that the total of Tables 3 and 4 amounts to $451,152, while the estimate submitted for the present fiscal year is only $402,112. Four hundred and thirty thousand four hundred and seventeen dollars and sixty-seven cents was expended for "Commutation of quarters" for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1908. As the number of officers is gradually increasing it would appear that the figures given in Tables 3 and 4 for the fiscal year 1910 are very close, it being an increase of only $20,734.33 over the actual expenditures for the fiscal year 1908. Of this amount $14,688 is for "Commutation of quarters" for paymasters' clerks on duty on shore, and is a new allowance authorized by the naval act approved May 13, 1908. This leaves a diference of $6,046.33 between the estimates in Tables 3 and 4 and the amount actually expended for the year ended June 30, 1908. So far as the provisions of law referred to relate to the enlisted force of the navy, it appears that all the information called for was furnished in the Appendix "I" (pp. 656 to 659, inclusive, estimates |