26 MAY 1917, Page 12

NELSON AND REPRISALS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") takes a long time nowadays for one's. Spectator to reach 'Western Queensland, and I have only lately read your issue of December 23rd last and the correspondence on reprisals or equal treatment of prisoners. By the time this reaches you the question may have become more acute. May I remind you of Nelson's letter to Lindholm, the Danish Adjutant-General, after the battle of Copenhagen? "God forbid that I should destroy an unresisting Dane. When they become my prisoners I become their