25 SEPTEMBER 1915, Page 2

We have dealt at length elsewhere with the question of

National Service, and the bitter controversy which has arisen over it. We aro glad to say, however, that this bitterness seems to be abating, and that the wild rumours and ill-balanced talk about plots and conspiracies and efforts to break up the Coalition, or to get rid of this or that Minister, have proved to be without the slightest foundation. The Coalition is not going to break up, and the Government, though they will not have recourse to compulsion if they can raise the men without it, will resort to it rather than do without those fresh supplies of men which are essential for carrying on the war.