Parliament reassembled on Tuesday after the summer recess. The chief
interest of the sitting was furnished by Ministers' answers to questions. Mr. Boner Law, in announcing that an Air Ministry would be set up, declined to add to General Smuts's statement on our air offensive against Germany in reply to the air raids on England. "Our action," he said, "depends upon what we con- sider the best means of damaging the enemy." Mr. Montagu was questioned about the release of Mrs. Besant from detention in Madras, and, failing to satisfy his questioner, had to repeat his explanation at length. on the motion for the adjournment. He said, in effect, that Mrs. Resent and other unconstitutional agitators had been released-by the Indian Government in order to create a favourable atmosphere for the consideration of the new policy which he announced in August.
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