30 MAY 1908, Page 3

We are very glad that the principles of the National

Service League should thus have been put within the four corners of a Bill, and that there should be so complete and absolute an exposure of the delusion that any one connected with the movement championed by the National Service League desires conscription or the filling of the Regular Army by compulsion. All they want, and all we want, is universal training and the formation of a citizen Army on the Swiss model, which could be relied on to defend our hearths and homes in case of invasion. We want training to be compulsory, but service to be required only when the enemy has landed.