11 FEBRUARY 1922, Page 15

A CORRECTION.

(To net Eorroa or " SPECrITOS.") Sta,—You are a little at fault in your information about the late Pope. and his immediate predecessor. His late Holiness was elected Pope at the very beginning of the War—not in the second year as you have it—and Pope Pius X. was taken ill at the outbreak of the War, and died in August, 1914, so his Holiness was never in a position to protest against the

violation of Belgium.—I am, Sir, &c., Kant. [We regret the mistake. We wrote "second month of the War," and did not notice the error in the proof.—ED. Spec- tator.]