13 APRIL 1918, Page 2

Sir Donald Maclean, who has done good service in presiding

over the Chief Appeal Tribunal, said that his experience led him to doubt the wisdom of raising the military age beyond forty-seven or forty- eight, both on commercial and on medical grounds. Too many men of indifferent physique had been called up, only to become burdens upon the Army and the nation. He criticized severely the proposal to sweep away all the statutory safeguards of the Tribunals and leave the Government free to make whatever rules they pleased.