15 APRIL 1943, Page 14

LORD LUGARD AND UGANDA

SIR,—I am away from my library and Lord Lugard's two big red volumes on Uganda ; but, if my memory serves me, there is a picturesque touch which may be added to the account Mr. Nicolson gives of the incident on " the little knoll" to which he twice refers: that Lugard (with only fifty Soudanese) kept the tribesmen at bay by fiddling with a Maxim which had jammed or was cartridgeless.—Yours faithfully,