5 DECEMBER 1914, Page 26

[To TRH EDITOR 07 ms " BPICTATOB."]

Sru,—A relation of mine, a commercial traveller, has just returned from a journey in the United States. I asked him what he thought of the opinion of the Americans in regard to the war. His only remarks were: " You see, as a rule each American takes in about six morning newspapers on his journey to business each day; and when he has had a look at them invariably exclaims to his fellow-passengers : 'Do you see we have taken so-and-so ? " Do you see we have captured so many prisoners P ' " In fact, he ear; it is nothing else but "we" in all references to our doings on the Continent.—I am,