22 JUNE 1918, Page 3

We expressed the opinion last week that the War Office

does not hope to use middle-aged men, without any early training, as if they were young recruits. However it may hope to use them, the older men have been treated by many Medical Boards with such blindness to the national interest, to say nothing of hardship to the indi- vidual, that Sir Donald Maclean was forced last week to intimate that the Appeal Tribunal over which he presides will in future regard military Grade I. as Grade II. Obviously it must be more difficult for a man between forty-five and fifty, let us say, to qualify for Grade I., under any rational standards of examination, than for a man between thirty and forty-three.