A SPECTATOR 'S NOTEBOOK
VOTHING, naturally, arouses more eager and earnest interest 11 than suggestions that an answer to the night-bomber will S003 be found. There is little doubt that it will, but in such matters more than ordinary reticence is desirable, and writers who had pretty accurate knowledge of what the hoped-for answer was have preferred to say less than they would have liked rather than run the risk of saying more than was wise. Even as it is I shall refrain from doing more than quote two recent statements—in last Sunday's Observer. The Air Correspondent of that paper, Major' Oliver Stewart, wrote: "The new barrage system, although important, was but one step towards this end [an answer ,to the night-bomber]. The next step will be more decisive, and is imminent."
And the Editor, Mr. J. L. Garvin, in another column, adds more explicitly: _ "There is a remedy. It is well worked out not only in theory but in preliminary experiments. To bring it into full operation as a war-instrument may take some time, as in the case of the brilliant reply to the magnetic mine at sea. When applied the new device will enable our fighters to intercept the night-bombers and kill them."
All this, I have good reason to believe, is strictly true.
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