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•The following table shows the colonial military and naval expenditure as taken from the latest estimates and accounts: Colony.

Group.

Mediterranean North America West Indies

West Africa

Gibraltar Malta Cyprus Canada

1 8

St Helena Cape of Good Hope

117,452

811,189

2 10

13,137

250,000

1 0

27,630 377,856 Mauritius 145,399 3,298,342 Ceylon 142,266 1,175,656 Straits Settlements (including Malay States) Labuan and British (not known) North Borneo 248,710 88,321 Hong Kong 155,749 16,635 West Australia

1 5 0 10 2 4

n

Natal

99

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Basutoland Bechuanaland Rhodesia

99

Australasia

0 6 2 3 1 11

129,751 11,235 154,543 9,500 190,000 23,972 275,363 57,689 6,863 34,277 286,484 54,296 2,050 150 4,816 13,057 1 24,299 /No trustworthy I 53,163 ' statistics | 35,049 at present 45,077 available for these colonies. 95 3,897 309,504 2,143,100

Leeward Islands Windward Islands Barbados Trinidad British Honduras ,, Guiana Falkland Islands Gambia Sierra Leone

South Australia Victoria New South Wales Queensland Tasmania New Zealand Fiji British New Guinea

8,275 2,000 67,401

0 9 1 11

0 6 2 10

238,487

361,045 32,776 179,392 1,176,268 233,997 1,335,800 484,700 94,401 171,719 13,996 768,910 169,944 121,798 2,283 3,044 3,350,000

Besides Colonial forces proper there are what are officially known as Colonial corps, consisting of troops raised in the Colonies and India, and paid by the Imperial Government for garrison duty at the Imperial fortresses and coaling stations. The Colonial corps at the present time comprise the West India regiment (three battalions), West African regiment, British Central African regiment, Hong Kong regiment, and Chinese regiment; the Royal Malta artillery, the West Indian, West African and East African companies of artillery, submarine miners, and fortress engineers ; the Royal Malta militia, the Bermuda militia artillery ; and the Bermuda volunteer rifle corps. These corps number altogether some 10,000 regular, 2500 militia, and 300 volunteer troops, and are under the direct control of the War Office. In addition to these Colonial corps under the War Office there are certain other troops of the Empire which also, not being properly Colonial forces, call only for brief mention. These are the military forces of the British Central Africa, British East Africa, Uganda and Somaliland Protectorates. They number altogether some 4500 regular native soldiers, under Imperial officers lent by the War Office, and are administered by the Foreign Office. (m. N.) India After the transfer of the Government of India to the Crown in 1858, the whole military organization was re-

Remarks.

s. d.

0 9

n

99 Asia.

5,709 25,990 502,709

20,699 177,745 229,286 5,185,990 208,000 16,098 52,000 706,394

Newfoundland Bermuda Bahamas Jamaica

Gold Coast Lagos Southern Nigeria Northern ,, 9 ” Africa ’. South

Military and ExMilitary and Population Naval Naval Ex- (estimated penditure per head of penditure. 31/12/97). Population.

Contribution. Armed police. Permanent and Militia force and North-west Mounted Police. Armed police. Armed police. Armed police, Militia, and allowance to Imperial troops. Armed police and defence force. Armed police. Armed police and allowance to Imperial troops. Armed police and Volunteers. >> >> Armed police and Militia. Volunteers. Armed police. Armed constabulary and allowance to Imperial troops. Armed constabulary and Volunteers. Armed constabulary. 99 99 Expenditure on armed constabulary at present covered by grant from Imperial Exchequer. Volunteers. Cape Mounted Rifles ; Volunteers ; contribution to Navy and allowance to Imperial troops. Natal police, Volunteers ; contribution to Navy and allowance to Imperial troops. Armed police. £49,425 covered by grant from Imperial Exchequer. Armed police and Volunteers (British South Africa Company). Contribution and allowance to Imperial troops. Volunteers, contribution, and allowance to troops. Malay States Guides, armed police, Volunteers, and contribution. Armed police. Armed police, Volunteers, and contribution. Military forces and contributions to Navy, and to Federal fortresses in Australia.

7 2 1 3 3 3 1 4 3

10 7 5 4

[Military and Naval forces, contributions to Navy [ and to Federal fortresses in Australia. Military forces and contribution to Navy. )> !> >> Armed police and Volunteers. Armed police.

cast. The local European army was abolished. The artillery became wholly British, with the exception of a few native mountain batteries. The Company’s European artillery, engineers, cavalry and infantry were amalgamated with the royal army. The total strength of the British troops, all of the royal army, was largely increased, while that of the native troops was largely diminished. Three distinct native armies — those of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay — were still maintained. The reduced Indian armies consisted of cavalry and infantry only, distributed as follows, with a few artillery:— Battalions, Infantry. Regiments, Cavalry. Bengal ... 49 ... 19 Madras. . . 40 . . . 4 Bombay. . . 30 . . . 7 Punjab force. . 12 . . . 6 Total. . . 131 . . . 36 There were also three sapper battalions, one to each army. The Punjab force, which had 5 batteries of native