28 APRIL 1928, Page 17

AN EMPEROR IN EXILE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

SIR,—Under the heading " An Emperor in Exile," page 537 of the Spectator, which is regularly read in my family, I note a remark in answer to a complaint made by the Emperor's consort, to the effect that Germany " sank hundreds of ships and drowned hundreds of men, women and children, neutral and otherwise, in the effort to starve Britain and France into submission."

If I may say so, I can hardly believe that, with the. exception of the " man in the street," there is, at the present day, anycine in England wino does not know as an historical fact that the unlimited submarine warfare alluded to' was not entered upon " from the first day of the War," but arose as a mere consequence of, and a sequel to, the blockade.—