10 AUGUST 1944, Page 14

HOPPERS AND BOMBS SIR,—I fear " Janus " has put

rather too much "pep" into his paragrati about hop-picking and flying bombs. It seems doubtful if there is any region where "the bombs are being shot down methodically in brgt numbers to explode on or near the ground" in that region ; and if were correct, surely the defence would obligingly shift a little whit hopping was on. Then as to "geographical disclosure," it is necessary to draw a line not only from the Pas de Calais, but also from the Somne and probably the Seine Inferieure too.

These considerations may not enable prospective pickers to loci forward to their excursion with Janus' "quite normal zest," but they mat think that, after all, the hop-garden is probably a "better 'ole."—Youn