21 MARCH 1914, Page 15

ETO TIT EDITOR ON TIM “Srscraxo..."1 SIR,—May I add another

link in your chain with the past? I think I must be almost unique in being able to say that (though lain not yet nearly an octogenarian) my father, the late Hear-Admiral Sir Francis Collier, C.B., K.G.H., fought with Nelson at the battle of the Nile, 1798, being then only twelve