31 JULY 1915, Page 3

In the Lords on Monday, when the debate on the

War Pensions Bill was continued, Lord Balfour moved that the Bill be postponed. The critics were not satisfied with Lord Crewe's proposal that two representatives of the Soldiers' and Salim' Families Association and two representatives of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Help Society should sit on the Statutory Committee, and that representatives of these societies should be asked to join local Committees. Lord St. Aldsvyn said that the new Committee would be expensive and would act without checks. Lord Lansdowne declared that. it would be a mis- fortune if the Bill were laid aside for six or seven weeks, or even longer ; but in the division the Government were defeated by forty-four votes to thirty-one.