18 APRIL 1903, Page 15

WHAT THE UNIONIST GOVERNMENT HAVE DONE.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

you allow me to say that you cannot credit the Government with Sir F. Lugard's achievements (Spectator, April 11th)? They are all his own, and in spite of the Colonial Office. It censured him severely for the expedition he was about to undertake, and took the almost unprecedented course of publishing the despatch of censure before he could have seen it, much less answered its allegations. To be sure, the cat was away (in South Africa), and so the mice played.—