25 FEBRUARY 1949, page 18

Field Sports

Sm,—In a letter published in the Spectator of February 11th, Mr. E. G. Barlow draws attention to a case reported in an article which appeared in the Gamekeeper and Countryside......

Intolerable " If " ?

SIR, --Mr. Vulliamy's'epithet in his review of Martin Tupper seems imply that he has not read Kipling's " If " carefully, or he would surely agree that, for its purpose of......

Student Service Sir,—the Danger Of Inaccurate Press...

by the remarks of Mr. S. K. Ratcliffe concerning Bristol students. His opinions are based on a Press report in which veracity has been sacrificed for news value. It must first......

Nationalists At Cambridge

Sm,-I trust you will allow me to answer Janus's references to the Cambridge University Nationalist Club, and to its recent speaker, Mrs. Hugo Harper, of Newnham College. Janus......

LIGHT ON ULSTER Sta,—In his article In Darkest Belfast, Mr. Rawle Knox quotes, as a legiti- mate Roman Catholic grievance, that their schools only receive a 65 per cent. grant......

Gas-chambers

Sta,—In the Spectator of February 4th Janus implies that there was a gas- chamber in operation at Belsen concentration camp. In fact, there was no gas-chamber there, and most of......

The Brand, Near Loughborough.

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Cook Houses And Comforts

Sta,—I am in complete agreement with your contributcir, A.C.2, in the Spectator of February 11th. I had the good fortune to command overseas a company in a well-known county......

Sparrows And D.d.t.

SIR, —Sir William Beach Thomas, in his notes of January 14th, asks, " How do sparrows detect D.D.T. ? " In this country the answer is that they don't. This house has been......

Intercession For The Persecuted

SIR, —Curiously enough the note in the Spectator of February 18th, The Attack on Christianity, appeared on the same day as a leading article in the Church Times, suggesting that......