22 APRIL 1916, Page 2

In the House of Lords on Tuesday Lord Milner moved

his resolution in favour of compulsion. It afforded, he declared, the only possible way out of a mass of difficulties in which we had been landed by dealing with the recruiting problem piecemeal. With most of the general propositions in the speech we are in strong sympathy. We cannot, however, find space to deal with it at length, especially as it is overshadowed by the Cabinet crisis. Events are moving so fast that comment on this particular episode would almost certainly be " stale " before it could reach our seeders' hands.