18 SEPTEMBER 1915, Page 3

On Monday night the Admiralty announced that Admiral Sir Percy

Scott had been appointed "to take charge of the gunnery defences of London against attack by enemy air- craft." Recent events had given rise to a vary widespread feeling that it would be desirable to entrust these duties to the control of a highly qualified expert, and in view of Admiral Sir Percy Scott's record and achievements the choice of the Admiralty has been received with general satisfaction. The high standard of marksmanship in the British Navy qwes a very great deal, not only to the methods of training which he introduced, but to the inventive capacity and ingenuity of contrivance which he displayed as Captain of the Gunnery School at Whale Island as well as- on active service during the Boer War.