26 MAY 1917, Page 3

As we have said, we cannot but believe that Mr.

Marshall has somehow or other got hold of a mare's-nest, but if the facts are as stated, then undoubtedly the matter should be sifted to tho bottom. The present writer knows of a largo number of cases of hard-worked country doctors who have given an enormous amount of time to hospital work without payment, or the slightest suspicion that payment was obtainable. Though often poor men, they have never even claimed payment for the petrol used on their hospital visits. To discover now that a certain number of their colleagues no better off than themselves have been drawing pay for similar work, the money being as it were slipped into their hands with a wink and a "Mind you don't tell," causes very bitter feelings.