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On Monday the House of Commons went into Committee on

the Compulsion Bill, and Mr. Chambers moved to include Ireland, a policy in which he was supported by Captain Craig, the well-known Ulster leader. Mr. Bonar Law, whose manage- ment of the Bill in the House of Commons has been excellent, made a very sound apology for the exclusion of Ireland. After declaring that if it were a question of a permanent system of national defence it would be impossible for him to consent to the exclusion of Ireland, he said he could support exclusion in a Bill based upon the imminent need of the moment and not upon essential principles. The object of the Bill was to get a certain number of men with the least amount of friction and division in the nation. That being so, it was better to exclude Ireland.

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