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question could not, or would not, accept his constitutional 
position as a Colonial officer appointed by and subordinate 
to the Ministry, and the dismissal of Lord Dundonald by 
the Canadian Government in 1904 revealed the fact that 
that officer, in his desire for efficiency, had practically attacked 
the Dominion Government.! The plan was then adopted 
by Act 4 Edw. VIL. c. 23 of abolishing the command-in- 
chief and instituting a Militia Council with an Inspector- 
General, who might be a military officer of the United 
Kingdom or of Canada ; and while this post was at first filled 
by Sir Percy Lake, it was then, on his retirement in 1910 
after an unusually prolonged service, given to a Canadian 
officer, Brigadier-General Otter, while his place was filled by 
an officer of the British army. In the case of the Common- 
wealth something of the same sort happened ; the attempt 
to maintain a post of general officer commanding broke 
down completely, and Act No. 14 of 1904, after the usual 
friction had ended with the retirement of @eneral Hutton, 
substituted a Council of Defence, with an Inspector-General 
and a Military Board. A Council was also created with one 
member a British officer by Act No. 41 of 1906 by the New 
Zealand Government, but by the Act of 1910 its powers are 
transferred to the Commandant. Much more important, 
probably, has been the visit of Lord Kitchener above men- 
tioned to both New Zealand and to Australia, and his 
advice, which led to the legislation of 1910 in either 
Dominion,? and the visit of Sir John French to Canada in 
1910 in order to inspect the whole of the forces of the 
Dominion. But Canada is in a very different position from 
‘ See House of Commons Debates, 1904, pp. 4580-665; and cf. General 
Autton’s case, ibid., 1900, pp. 594 seq., 2671; Sess. Pap., No. 91. 
* See New Zealand Parliamentary Debates, cli. 760; Parl, Pap., 1910, 
H.19 A; 1911, H. 19; Memorandum on the Defence of Australia, by Lord 
Kitchener, February 10, 1910; Commonwealth Parl. Pap., 1910, Nos. 48 
and 59; Annual Report by Major-General Kirkpatrick, May 30. 1911; 
ficial Year Book, iv. 1074-96. 
* For his report see Canada Sess. Pap., 1911, No. 85a, with a report of 
(General Lake (No. 35 b) on the steps taken to make the recommendation 
sffective. He held that the volunteer basis was still legitimate, but that if