Lord Roberts had an overwhelmingly enthusiastic reception when be spoke
on National Service at Leeds on Friday week.
Only Glasgow remains to be visited in the series of great provincial meetings which Lord Roberts undertook to address the earlier meetings having been at Bristol and Wolverhamp- ton. The eagerness to hear Lord Roberts at Leeds was very great, and thousands were unable to gain admission to the Town Hall. The organizers of the meeting, who displayed much inventiveness, had the speech reproduced, sentence by sentence, by limelight on the façade of the hall while Lord Roberts was speaking inside. It was also reproduced in various places of entertainment. Lord Roberts was justified in saying that the progress made by the cause of National Service marked "one of the greatest revolutions of public opinion in this country that the history of the past three- quarters of a century affords." National Service was rapidly becoming a popular demand ; the people were in fact acting independently and in advance of the politicians. We believe this to be absolutely true. No doubt the politicians before long will become aware of the fact, and will then hasten to square their debts with popular feeling.
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