24 DECEMBER 1921, Page 3

Sir Erie Geddes and his colleagues on the Economy Com-

mittee appointed last summer have presented their report to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. " A. P. N.," in the Daily Chronicle of Friday, December 18th,. stated that the " Super- Axe " Committee proposed to lessen expenditure by £105,000,000. It would co-ordinate " some of the services " of the Navy, Army and Air Force in a Ministry of Defence. It would scrap a number of older ships ; it would cut down the Army Estimates by £20,000,000—apart from Mesopotamia--redueing the cavalry and artillery as well as the infantry, and lessening the vote for military education ; and it would probably merge the Air Force in the other services. The administration of the Pensions Ministry would bo simplified and cheapened.