2 FEBRUARY 1962, Page 13

SIR.—In the 'Portrait of the Week' in your January 19

issue you reported that 'in Algiers and Oran thirty-one Europeans and Moslems were killed, and seventy wounded, by European grenade-throwers and torrimy-gunners': shocking incidents, which you rightly drew attention to. During the week in question, however, similar acts of terror were per- petrated by the FLN upon European civilians (and no doubt upon anti-FLN Moslems) in which, almost certainly, an equal number of people were killed or maimed : yet you did not mention these at all. Why?

[If Lord Monson will provide the figures for that week we will publish them: but the French authorities have not made them available.—Editor, Spectator.]