THE BARRETT INQUIRY.
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—You have wisely printed that which every officer cognizant of the Army Act and King's Regulations has been saying during the past week. The existing machinery of Army discipline —a Court of Inquiry—was amply sufficient to deal with the conduct of Lieutenant-Colonel Delme-Radcliffe and his associates. As President of Courts of Inquiry held during the past twenty years I have on no occasion found the least difficulty in obtaining the evidence upon oath of civilian -witnesses. In some cases Court-Martial proceedings followed; in others the ordinary pro- cedure of the Criminal Courts was all that the case needed. Even now Lieutenant Barrett is not debarred from instituting proceedings for conspiracy against at least three persons con- cerned with the removal of that officer from his unit.—I am,
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