13 JANUARY 1917, page 11

The Allied Terms Heligoland.

(To THE EDITOR or etre " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The terms you outline are suggestive and valuable, but they take no cognizance of the necessity of providing for the occupation of......

(to The Editor Of The "spectator.") Sir, —the Passage...

letter sent by "J. C. F.," and con- tained in your issue of January 6th, regarding the drinking customs in Glasgow is most misleading, and I would have thought that before......

(to The Editor Or The " Sfectetoil.") $ir,—a Constant Reader

of the Spectator is getting very tired ef the "Down. Glasses," Prohibition, Alcohol and Food, &o., &c., agitation. Can't the matter be settled some way, or leave it alone? We......

Alcohol In France.

Fro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT011."1 Sie,—It should encourage temperance• reformers in this country to know that the evils of alcoholic consumption in war time are even more......

" Down Glasses."

ITo TEE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—An engineer, a young relative of my own, employing about forty men mainly upon naval work on the East Coast, told me he had occasion to......

Bread Versus Beer.

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—There are two mutually contradictory agitations in course of promotion : (a) The total Prohibition of the sale of intoxicants during......

A Phase Of The Drink Problem.

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SpEcraTort.") Sia,—As I have carried on my work in a hospital through which scores of overseas soldiers go as patients, I have positively winced at some......