19 MAY 1928, Page 19

RECRUITING POSTER VANDALISM [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

SIR,—Prince Arthur of Connaught, speaking at the Royal Academy banquet, made an appeal for the prevention of the disfigurement of the countryside.

This appeal will be received with sympathy by most of your readers. Is it too much to hope that it will come io the notice of the Secretary of State for War, and that orders will be given for the immediate removal of the tin recruiting posters which, in the most barbarous fashion, have recently been nailed to roadside trees all over the country ?

There is little likelihood of commercial firms cultivating decency and restraint in their publicity " stunts " so long as gaudy vandalism of this kind is indulged in by a Government department—I am, Sir, &c.,