The Committee organised by the National Service League for the
purpose of studying the Swiss Militia system on the spot have returned to this country after what has evidently been a most interesting and successful visit. The Committee, which included a strong contingent of representatives of the British working men—no fewer than ten being Labour or Liberal-Labour Members of Parliament—were welcomed with the most generous hospitality by the Republic ; they witnessed mauceuvres in which forty-four thousand men were engaged ; they visited all the military institutions of the country ; and they were afforded every facility for obtaining the fullest infor- mation as to the working of the national system. In due course the Committee will publish their Report, and we shall have occasion for returning to the subject. For the moment we must content ourselves with congratulating the National Service League on the enterprise and public spirit it has shown, and calling the attention of our readers to the interesting letter published in our correspondence columns from a member of the Committee.
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