The report of Sir John French, the Inspector-General of the
Forces, issued on Wednesday, in dealing with the Territorial Force, makes the following very serious charge against the National Service League :—
"I think it right to place on record that complaints were made to me by more than one commanding officer that their endeavours to obtain recruits were much hampered by agents of the National Service League, who are said to go about certain districts advising men not to take service with the Territorial Force."
If this charge can be substantiated, clearly the action of the National Service League must be condemned by all right- thinking men ; but it must be substantiated not by vague and general references to unnamed persons, but by clear and specific evidence of a kind which can be met by the League The assertion that" more than one commanding officer" chose to attribute his failure to obtain recruits to the action of the League is by itself evidence of nothing.
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