22 JUNE 1951, Page 18

Rorke's Drift

Sta.—Mr. Arthur Ransome, in his review of Miss Haggard's biography of her father, refers to Rorke's Drift as " that disaster?' In the same

review he points out an error of Miss Haggard's. He should have remembered that Rorke's Drift waft in fact one of the most famous military exploits in our history, and anything but a disaster. He was thinking of Isandhlwana. Let him pluck the beam from his own eye!— Yours faithfully. W. LYON BLEASE. Bank Chambers. 3 Cook Street, Liverpool, 2.