21 JULY 1917, Page 2

'Mr. Asquith finished with Burke's memorable appeal: "But let vs

pans on. For God's-sake let us pass on !" He indeed went to the heart of the matter. A Report which-is not .used so as to help us to get. on with the war has become. a nationalmuisance. Mr. Lloyd George passionately echoed Mr. Asquith's appeal, though, as far as could be understood, he was still rather in favour-of making two of the Barrett Act. We must leave the debate in the House of Lords alone, except to mention Lord Curzon's excellent remarks that the demand for punishment had developed into something like the witeli-hunting of barbaric times, and that the real lesson of the Report was that reform-of the Indian military system wasessential. We have written on the whole subject in a leading article.