31 JULY 1909, Page 14

LORD CREWE'S SPEECH ON NATIONAL SERVICE. [To Tux EDITOR Or

THE "S MOT LTOR."

SIR,—The following extract from a letter by one of our old boys describing his first experience in camp as a trooper in a neighbouring Yeomanry regiment may be of interest :—

" A few of the fellows are Public School men, some are second- class ' bloods,' and the rest are out-and-out roughs. Of these classes the first and last are very good fellows and good men to work with. The second-class g bloods' are beyond the pale."

This is a curious commentary ou Lord Crewe's remarkable speech in the House of Lords.—I am, Sir, &c., College House, Lodge Lane, Liverpool.

H. GORSE.