14 AUGUST 1915, Page 18

A "VOICE FROM RHODESIA.

[To TUE EDITOR OF TOE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Your correspondent in Northern Rhodesia writes in last week's issue that "there are a considerable number of district officials in Northern Rhodesia who desire nothing so much as to go to the front," and be suggests that a "proportion of available officials should be called home to join the Army." Surely "the front" for Rhodesian officials is to be found not in Europe but in German East Africa, That is Germany's largest and last remaining colony, and is being strongly held by the Germans, who are -greatly assisted by the 'fact, pointed out by Mr. Creighton Mandell, that they ." have a position of immense natural strength to defend."—,I• dm, Sir, &c:,' •