THE ROYAL ARMY CLOTHING DEPARTMENT. [To THE EDITOR OF THE
"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Some four weeks ago an article appeared in the Spectator based on an alleged statement made in Court that a document emanating from the Royal Army Clothing Department contained twenty-five signatures of officials who knew nothing whatever of their business. I will not comment on the justice of the various criticisms that have appeared regarding the Department, but as this particular statement has been se largely made use of, and was ea palpably absurd, I obtained official copies of the evidence given in the Courts, and find that the statement actually made by the Judge was that there were twenty-five "ticks" on the document. It is interesting to watch in various newspapers how twenty-five ticks have grown successively into twenty-five iuitials, into twenty-five signatures, and finally into sarcastic comments on the incompetence of twenty-five officials.—I am, Sir, &c., C. G. JEANS, Major-General.
Royal Army Clothing Department, Grosvenor Road, S.1V.
[We are most anxious not to be unjust to the officials of the Clothing Department, but we should be very grateful if our corre- epondent would enlighten us as to the meaning of an official tick. We have always imagined it to mean that the document was not objected to and might go forward.—En. Spectator.]
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