17 APRIL 1915, Page 15

NEWSPAPER PROPRIETORS AND PUBLIC SPIRIT. [To mut EDIT. OF IMF

"Staccatos."] SIR,—How can men be expected to see the necessity of enlisting, or artisans of working overtime, in the atmosphere of endless victory and immediate peace created, for the purpose of sale, by the bills and headlines of certain news- papers, to which you referred in a recent article on " Unofficial News "? Surely the smug citizens, many of them well known, who own these papers should be held up to public obloquy rather than the men whom they mislead.—I am, Sir, &e., K.