28 MAY 1937, Page 20

Sia,—General Lethbridge Alexander's story of a Brigade Headquarters Mess, wherein

every officer at the call of the Brigadier promptly quoted Plato, is an improvement on Baron Munchausen. The Chaplain who was made to stand on his chair all through dinner for being a naughty boy and doubting the possibility of this incredible feat ought to have had a place in Alice in Wonderland.

The General forgets that there are a few other soldiers who read The Spectator and feel obliged to protest against such merciless pulling of the civilian leg.—I am, &c., E. N. MOZLEY

(Lieut.-Colonel late R.E.).

Lynwood, Clotherhohne Road, Ripon.