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LESS FOOD—CONTINUED FOOD DESTRUCTION. (To ma EDITOR or THE "

SPECTATOR.")

8111,—I certainly do not regard Mr. Winterton's letter in your issue of last week as containing evidence against the Trade, and if ha has nothing of a more reliable character to bring forward in support of the serious charge he has seen fit to make against the Government and the Trade, I would submit that discretion in his case should prove the better part of strength. The suggestion that the Trade has tampered with the Commissioners of Inquiry into Industrial Unrest is surely a matter for the Commissioners in their own. interests to take up. But most of your readers will certainly be surprised to learn that the " hidden hand " has been concealed in the beer-barrel.—I am, Sir, &c.,

36 Hans Place, S.W. 1. F. P. WHITBREAD.