On Thursday evening the Prime Minister showed, as , he has
shown often on previous occasions, that in a matter of the highest Imperial concern he can be as firm as any of his pre- decessors in the great office he holds. In answer to several questions which had been addressed to the Under-Secretary for India in reference to the recent deportations, Mr. Asquith adopted almost exactly the attitude which Lord Morley of Blackburn adopted in his speech at Oxford, noticed below. The Prime Minister pointed out that the supporters of Mr. Mackarness's Bill are " only encouraging a revival in India of the elements of mischief that the deportations of last December have done so much to abate." We congratulate Mr. Asquith on thus brushing aside the nonsense talked by extremists in regard to " Lord Morley's tyranny."
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