A NATIONAL HUMILIATION.
[TO TIER EDITOR Or TER SFEOTATOR.1
SIR,—May I venture to congratulate you heartily as a regimental officer on your admirable article, " A National Humiliation" t I would venture. however, to take exception to one word whioh does not, I am sure, express your real meaning. " We shall be surprised if we do not learn at the end of the war that many of our mistakes were caused by regimental officers being set to work for which, through no fault of their own, they had not the necessary capacity." I am certain, Sir, you meant to say experience. You yourself would not give change for a hundred- pound note as accurately or as quickly as a bank cashier—not because you have not the necessary capacity, but because you have not the necessary experience. Your correspondent certainly does not consider that his capacity is inferior to that of the ordinary Staff officer, though he knows full well he could not deal successfully with his technical job. Perhaps you will think that a comparatively small point is unduly laboured.—I am, [We agree. We should clearly have said " experience," not " capacity." What the regimental officer lacks is experi- ence. Capacity is, of course, to be found in, or may be missed in. both categories.—En. Spectator.]
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