The Military Service Bill passed the Report stage in the
House of Commons on Wednesday. The Opposition, for the sake of political effect, proposed a number of amendments, but were probably relieved at their rejection by overwhelming majorities. Mr. Stanton, the South Wales miners' leader, told these malcontents that " those who wished to put an end to Conscription should enable the Government to make a clean job of the war and the settlement which was to follow it." That is a complete answer to these disingenuous protests against the extension of Compulsory Service until the war is really at an end and peacd is assured. Mr. Churchill told the House that the Government would in no ease send large conscript armies into Russia, and that our Russian policy must be formulated in concert with the Allies or by the League of Nations. If the Allies would define their Russian policy, the plain man's doubts would be resolved.
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