25 DECEMBER 1915, Page 2

We guess, though it is only a guess, that Mr.

Asquith will not, however, at once have recourse to compulsion, but will express the opinion that a good many of the young men who have failed to offer themselves did so because they found them- selves in situations which would have warranted a Tribunal in marking them as indispensable, or at any rate would have justified their being placed in the last category. Others, again, owing to the physical difficulties of the canvass, had not had the matter put to them, directly. Therefore another appeal should be made in their case.