3 FEBRUARY 1923, Page 2

Among those who signed the petition of the Denison House

Committee to the Prime Minister, which is, in effect, Mr. Drage's Committee, are a number of men distinguished in local government and the study of our administration, as, for example, Lord Lansdowne, Lord Long, Lord Chelmsford, Lord Devonport, Lord Plymouth, Sir Frederick Pollock, Sir William Chance, Mr. Cecil Chapman, Sir Hugh Bell, the Master of Balliol, and Lord Sydenham. Some action on the part of the Government is more than called for.