London vii Bombay, 11th July.
In a debate on the national defence in the House of Lords, Mr, Balfour's statement on the 10th of May (that an invasion of England was impossible) was severely criticism Lord Roberts said that the lessons. of the South African war were already forgotten, He had no besit. ation in saying that the army is as absolutely unfitted and unprepared for war now as it was then, The nation must choose between conscript tion and universal training.—Reuter.
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