The House of Lords on Monday went into Committee on
the Army Bill. The debate was in many ways confused and con- fusing, but we must endeavour to make one or two points clear. The Government wisely, as we think, yielded to the Duke of Northumberland's demand that the position of the Lord-Lieutenant as President of the County Association should he more completely defined, and that care should be taken that the Army Council should not appoint a Chairman who might seem undesirable to the Association. As we understand, the Association will appoint the Chairman, subject to the approval of the Army Council,—that is, the Army Council will be able to intervene if a really bad appointment were to be made. Later, the question of the Militia was discussed, when the Duke of Bedford moved to eliminate the Militia from the Territorial Force.
