5 JUNE 1920, Page 11

THE REV. F. W. NORTH.

[To THE EDITOR or " SPccrsTOa."l SIII.—Your note on the arrival in this country of the Rev. F. W. North, the Chaplain of the British Church in Moscow, tempts me, as the parent of a British officer who was a prisoner in Moscow until lately, to call grateful recognition to the splendid services rendered to British prisoners in Moscow by Mr. and Mrs. North. Most of the British officers were originally con- fined with criminals in a common prison, and the food supplied to them was so meagre and disgusting that many of them (my son at least) would have perished but for the heroic and self- sacrificing efforts of Mr. and Mrs. North in providing them with necessary food.—I am, Sir, &c., L. J. ROBERTS. 2 Gwydir Gardens, Swansea.