27 FEBRUARY 1915, Page 2

Things being as they are, we are anxious that the

War Office and the Government should not be deflected from their work of beating the Germans into financial side-issues, how- ever important. These bad better wait till the war is over. At the same time, private Members are quite right to insist that there shall be no smothering of the facts These must be fully recorded. Meanwhile let the Government goon their own way. Later a Royal Commission will be able to draw from

the recorded facts the necessary inference, and tell us whether when timber had to be bought on a large scale it was, strange as it may sound at the moment, a case of out Montague Meyer• nut nu it.