MR. PEMBERTON-BILLING.
ITO THE EDITOR OF THE •' SPECTATOR.")
Sni,—Are you not rather hard on Mr. Pemberton-Billing ? Granted that his allegation with regard to Zeppelin raids in East and West London was a mistake, and worse than a mistake, it probably brought its own punishment by losing him the election. It showed his inexperience. Here is a fighter, a man of action, who has come home to fight red-tape, and when it winds him up he hits out wildly. We do muddle. We have muddled ingloriously over the air defences of London. Mr. Pemberton-Billing, who does not muddle, thinks he can set us straight, and is so keen that he does what he should not. But, remembering his gallant record, both at the front and also as a pioneer of aviation in the days when airmen got more kicks than halfpence, I think you might have treated him more leniently. That sound little paper, Flight, surely takes a fairer tone.—I am, Sir, &c., H. K. WEEKES.
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