31 JANUARY 1920, Page 3

The Times of Wednesday stated that the Government have decided

that the terms of enlistment in the Territorial Force shall include the obligation to serve oversee "in a moment of extreme national emergency, but not until the Reserves have been called to the Colours." As a further safeguard against the Territorials being called away unnecessarily from their civil occupations, an undertaking will be given that no Territorial soldier "shall be called upon for foreign service without the sanction of Parliament." It has also been decided, the Times tells us, that the Special Reserve shall be retained. It is satis- factory to know that the original proposals have been con. siderably modified, but it seems to us that oven in their modified form the new conditions arc a blunder.