22 JANUARY 1916, Page 2

On Tuesday the debate on this point was continued, and

Mr. Long made an urgent appeal that the amendment should not be pressed, in the course of which he gave the House a message from Lord Kitchener, the effect of which was that in the opinion of the Secretary of State for War the men affected by the Bill, plus the men who had already attested, would give him and the country the numbers required, and enable him to do all that was necessary to secure victory. Sir Ivor Herbert warmly protested against the appeal to the authority of Lord Kitchener, and indeed criticized the Secretary of State in no measured terms.