29 APRIL 1916, Page 3

In the House of Coranons on Wednesday the secret debate

was resumed. The official report merely tells us that Mr. Long moved the adjournment of the House, and that in the course of it he stated that if a Bill were brought in later to extend compulsion, it would not provide for a month's notice to each man before being called up. In the debate that followed a great many speakers took part, including Mr. John Redmond and Brigadier-General Seely. On Thursday, the day on which we write, Mr. Long introduced the new Military Service Bill. That Bill, it will be remembered, deals, not with the situation which will arise if the new recruiting effort is insufficient, but with the extensions of the existing system which bad been decided upon.