26 AUGUST 1922, Page 2

Mr. Lloyd George's speech, he said, was designed -flint to

convey a solemn warning to those who wanted to wreck the reforms and secondly to-res.ssurer En_lisktmen who wrongly thought that the British element in the Indian Civil Service-had-no longer any important work to dos He- added that he, had communicated with the Prime Minister, who had replied that - nothing in the speech indicated any departure from the- policy already announced. Although Lord Reading's explanation has been described as firm and opportune, it seems to Us, judging from the telegraphed reports, that it had a superfluous note of apology. What Mr. Lloyd George said was decidedly required by the circumstances, and his praise of the Civil Servants was no more than was ,nntoriously due to them.