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Director of Operations and Staff Duties (General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade) — Major G. Paley. Commandant, Royal Military College, Kingston (General Staff Officer, Ist Grade)— Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. V. Crowe. Professors, Royal Military College, Kingston (General Staff Officers, 2nd Grade) — Major T. B. Wood. Captain W. Robertson. A request has lately been received for six more General Staff Officers to be sent to Canada to be employed as follows :— One General Staff Officer, Ist Grade, for mobilization duties at Militia Headquarters. Four General Staff Officers, 2nd Grade, for duty with divisions in Eastern Canada. One General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade, for duty in the districts of Western Canada. Australia. The Commonwealth Section of the Imperial General Staff was organized in August, 1909, and is now constituted as follows :— Headquarters. Chief of the General Staff and Chief of the Commonwealth Section, Imperial General Staff— Major-General J. C. Hoad, C.M.G. Director of Defence Organization— (This position has not yet been filled.) Director of Military Training — Major P. A. Wilson, D.S.O. (an Imperial Exchange Officer replacing Captain C. B. B. White, Commonwealth Forces, who is attached to the War Office as General Staff Officer, 3rd Grade). Director of Intelligence — Colonel the Hon. J. W. McCay, V.D. The duties allotted to each branch are as follows :— Commonwealth Section of the Imperial General Staff. At Headquarters. Chief of the Commonwealth Section, Imperial General Staff. Organization for war. Plans of concentration for war. Intelligence concerning the Commonwealth. Preparation and maintenance of defence scheme. Training and instruction. Supervision and inspection of training at camps, manoeuvres, &c. Education and examination for promotion of officers. Recommendation for appointment to and promotion of officers of Commonwealth Section of the Imperial General Staff. Field operations and [promulgation of operationjg[orders. Schemes for manoeuvres and staff rides. and training-manuals. General Staff libraries. Preparation of maps. Advice upon raising and disbanding of units. Censorship in time of war. Director of Defence Organization. Organization and plans of concentration for war. Defence schemes for the Commonwealth. Strategical and tactical reconnaissances. Director of Military Training. Training and instruction of all arms. Education and examination for promotion of officers. Arrangement of classes of instruction. Conduct of examination of officers for Staff College, and for appointment to Permanent Forces. Schemes for manoeuvres and staff rides. Drill-books and training-manuals. Advice upon the acquisition of training-grounds and ranges. Advice upon the allotment of funds for training and manoeuvres.