18 OCTOBER 1913, Page 15

"CONSCRIPTIONISTS PLEASE NOTR"

[To ran EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—If the above phrase, used by Mr. Lloyd George at Bedford, referred to the advocates of compulsory service, is it not nearly time he found a more accurate synonym, because conscription allows substitutes and compulsory service does not? The two systems were sharply contrasted in the preamble to the first French Army Act after the Franco-German war, "La conscription eat abolie et le service militaire obligatoire

est etabli." Could antithesis do more P—I am, Sir, &c.,

Commander RN.