14 JULY 1917, Page 11

THE MESOPOTAMIAN REPORT.

ITo THE EDFFOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9

Sm,—If, as Lord Hugh Cecil declares in your lost issue, the waters of the well of truth have disagreed with us, is not the blame to be laid upon those who led to its pollution? He hints that "those in authority" may in future try to keep the well sealed. Why. Sir, this is the very plan that was adopted by " those in authority" at Simla and elsewhere! They sealed the well, as firmly as they could. But the truth, being, as it is, of gaseous and even ethereal tenuity, leaked ant, until, as we trine, the folk round about insisted upon the lid being raised. And hen---! What Lord Hugh is complaining about now is that the British public have got healthy noses.—I am. Sir, &c.,