To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SFSOTAT01.1
Sra,—I have just received my Spectator for last week (May 27th), but I hope I shall not be too late in writing to you. In your comments on the "News of the Week" you speak of "the scandal of the huge number of men withdrawn as officers' servants," and later you refer to the "two hundred thousand officers' servants . . . abstracted, as it were, from the firing line." Neither of those remarks is applicable to the officers' servants of this battalion, who accompany their officers wherever they go. Personally, I think that it is in the trenches that an officer needs his servant most ; and, as all the servants are in the fire trenches with their officers, they are as valuable in holding the trench as the ordinary rifleman. I always imagined that this was the case in all battalions ; iii fact, though I have been out here sixteen months, I have not yet come across any battalion in which the officers' servants are left behind when the battalion goes into the trenches. Of course, officers' grooms canned come up into the line.—I am, Sir, &c., CAPTAIN. Feld.
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