11 SEPTEMBER 1915, Page 3

The papers of Thursday announced the appointment of a Committee

under Lord Lansdowne to advise the Government on the best method of using the National Register for the successful prosecution of the war, and the drafting of an interim Report at the Committee's first meeting last week. In the Notes above we have expressed our opinion as to the best and chief use of the Register. If, as seems likely, Lord Lansdowne's Committee covers some of the ground already explored by Lord Crewe's Committee, we trust that its conclusions may be the same. Meanwhile the interim Report indicates approximately the classes which ought to be approached by the recruiting authorities. In other words, it isolates certain classes as not performing work which should entitle them to exemption from military duty.