27 JANUARY 1917, Page 15

THE RAID AT THE "FIELD" OFFICE. [To THE EDITOR or

TEE " SPECTATOR."] Sxa,—You will have seen a report published in the Times that my' private room in the Field building had been officially visited under warrant from the War Office. Will you kindly grant me space to say briefly that this visit had no relation to any business of the Fie/4 newspaper and concerned only correspondence relating to a high explosive in which I am. privately interested? I have stated the whole case in a long letter which the Times was good enough to print for me on January 18th.—I am, Sir, &c.,

Windsor House, Bream's Buildings, B.C. Tasonosz A. Coos.