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BRITISH EMPIRE AT WAR
By agreement between the great Parties forming the House of Commons, a truce to all measures of a controversial nature was called — and has been kept. All the important war measures have been passed by general consent. The greatest of them all, the second Military Service Bill, by which all men between the ages of eighteen and forty-one are subject to military service (unless exempted by statutory tribunals), passed with only thirty-five dissentients.
The life of Parliament was prolonged in the first instance until September 1916, and now has a further lease of life until May 1917. From August 1914 until August 1916 Parliament has been in almost
