19 APRIL 1913, page 2

Whatever - View Is The True View In Regard To National

service, the Government view is clearly indefensible. Even Whatever - view is the true view in regard to national service, the Government view is clearly indefensible. Even......

In The House Of Commons On Friday, April 11th, Mr.

Sandys brought forward his Bill imposing on all male subjects of eighteen years of age the obligation of serving for four years within the United Kingdom in the Territorial......

In The Commons On Tuesday The House Was Again In

Committee on the Provisional Collection of Taxes Bill, and an all-night sitting bad been anticipated. But amendments moved by Lord Hugh Cecil and Mr. Cassel having been accepted......

Mr. Bonar Law Ended The Debate With A Powerful And

impressive speech. Here are the words of his peroration :— "The right hon. gentleman admitted that the present position is not satisfactory, and he tried to prove that the need......

After An Interesting Debate A Motion To Abolish The Dramatic

censorship was carried without a division in the Commons on Wednesday. Mr. Robert Harcourt, the mover, contended that the censorship was a definite deterrent to new and original......

In The House Of Lords On Thursday The Second Reading

of the Army Bill led to a debate on home defence, which is to be resumed on Monday. As in the House of Commons, hypo- thetical calculations and sophistical subtleties in regard......

That, Like Mr. Keir Hardie's Remark, Strikes Us As...

otiose. Of course, if the people of this country decide not to have compulsion they will not have it. If they do decide on compulsion there is no reason to suppose that the army......

Colonel Seely's Reply, Which, We May Note, Was Made The

subject of a very severe attack by the Westminster Gazette—a newspaper very little noted for strongly criticising statesmen on its own side—has been regarded as showing his......