16 JANUARY 1915, page 5

Topics Of The Day.

COMPULSORY SERVICE. C OMPULSORY service has not come yet, but it is drawing -very near, and will certainly come unless some miracle should intervene—as, for example, the......

Naval Patience.

W E are in full agreement with a clear and far- seeing article by the Naval Correspondent of the Westminster Gazette published on Wednesday. The lesson derivable from that......

Mr. Lincoln And Compulsion.

W HILE dealing with the question of compulsion we cannot do better than quote once more in our columns the very striking words which Mr. Lincoln addressed to his fellow-citizens......