12 OCTOBER 1974, Page 5

Tragedy at Kiel

Sir: As one of the volunteer soldiers who JumPed on Exercise 'Bold Guard,' and rilarrowly missed the Kiel Canal, I would Ike to thank you for the excellent piece on the tragedy in The Spectator (September 21). I thought the article was particularly accurate, after some of the extraordinary newspaper pieces, and the conclusion was very heartening to those of as who believe in what we are doing aS volunteer military parachutists. 14 Hamilton Drive, Glasgow G. Hutton