28 OCTOBER 1916, Page 13

AMOS AND THE GERMANS.

(To ran EDITOR or TEl "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I was about to call the attention of your readers (if per- mitted) to the striking suggestion of dug-outs, aeroplanes, sub- marines, and steel nets in Amos ix. 2, 3, when the announcement of " Mount Carmel in German hands " completed the picture and determined my purpose to write. The words of Amos are :-

"Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down; and though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my light in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them."