3 MAY 1997, page 30

A Nod And A Wink

Sir: It has been brought to my notice that you carried an article by Alan Cochrane, `Outed by his aM folk', on 5 April regarding Sir Michael Hirst's resignation as chairman of......

Sir: The Antics I Obliquely Referred To Are, For General

Thompson's benefit (Letters, 26 April), Gallipoli, the Somme, Passchen- daele and March 1918. If the BEF played the major part in the Allied advance between July and October......

Sir: Is Alice Von Schlieffen Making Fun Of Us? Does

she even exist? David Damant Agar House, 12 Agar Street, London WC2......

Still No Answers

Sir: Alice von Schlieffen lays down smoke (Letters, 12 and 26 April). No moral judg- ment was being made about her great- grandfather's plan to invade neutral Bel- gium. The......