In vievrof what has more -happened, we need not record
in detail the debates in Parliament on Thursday and Friday of last week on the Mesopotamian 'affair, important though they were. The chief scent in the House of Commons on-Thursday-week week was that Mr. luituberiain resigned his office of Secretary of State for India. But we may take things in their order. The. Attorney-General began by explaining why he bad advised the Government to adopt the machinereeprovided by the Act of 191G—the Act epecially passed for inquiring into the affair of Mr. Barrett ancialre. Cornwallis-Went. 'the general sense of the speech, which-was very far from convincing theiHouse, was that the Mesopotamian Commission had framed- no whatges-of legal validity, and That another inquiry wasmeceasary to :give the charges legal form. The Government would not-sanction ?unitive melon as the result of theiffesepotamien Deport, nor would they tolerate the mandril. of dual -and simultaneous inquiries for soldiers and civilians.
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