An official report of the subsequent proceedings appeared in Wednesday's
papers. The Prime Minister, in moving the adjourn- ment, reviewed in detail the expansion of His Majesty's Forces over the last twenty months, and the result of the balancing of our naval and military needs or obligations against the requirements of life at home and the industrial help that Great Britain has to render to our Allies, most conspicuously in the manufacture of all kinds of munitions and military supplies, the maintenance of mer- cantile marine for their service as well as our own, and our con- tinued ability to provide financial aid. In these matters our share of the burden is immense, and plainly it is even less transferable than military effort. But the result 3 of recruiting, Mr. Asquith showed, had fallen short of the requirements, and the delay caused by sifting cases of hardship or indispensability had been under- estimated.
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