We shall not enter into any of the details of
the Army Inquiry of which the two Reports were published in the newspapers on Thursday. On that unsavoury subject the less said the better. Unless our feelings are no guide to the feelings of other people, there can be nothing but general resentment and disgust at the time and space occupied in disposing of such affairs when we are at war, and every ounce of the nation's mental and nervous energy is needed to cope with the enemy. We do not mean, of course, that such conduct as has been revealed should not be most gravely censured. It is essential that it should be exposed to public obloquy, and the conclusions of the Court of Inquiry seem to us admirable, both in sense and spirit. But wo cannot see why justice could not have been done by an executive act of the War Office without all this circuitous course of a special Act of Parliament and a specially composed Court.
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