20 APRIL 1918, Page 3

The House of Lords on Wednesday read the Military Service

Bill a second time without a division. Lord Salisbury said that he did not believe that Labour was favourable to the Irish Nationalists, and urged that it was more important to keep Ulster with us than all the rest of Ireland. The Archbishop of Canterbury stated that the Church of England had nothing to do with the exemption of the clergy from military service, and that he would encourage the clergy to respond voluntarily to the call for men. Lord Lansdowne doubted the wisdom of applying Conscription to Ireland, or of trying to rush a Home Rule Bill through Parliament at this time. Lord Derby, defending the Government, said that he hoped to get from Ireland far more men than would replace the casualties in this battle.