SAVE THE VICTORY'
- [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Re your article in the issue of October 21st, 1922 (117 years after), on " Save the Victory.' " So far as I am per- sonally concerned I am—I am sorry to say—like many another citizen better than myself, somewhat deeply immersed in the drab, prosaic problem of rates, taxes and existence : the latter by no means the most important of the three. Never- theless, put me down for a couple of guineas—little enough in all conscience ! But what I particularly want to say to you is this. The ' Victory,' our ' Victory ' going ? Appeal, Sir, to our Empire-wide troop of bare-kneed " Swashtika " living Boy Scouts ! Tell them the Victory' is going ; tell them that it is up to them to save her. And believe me, Sir, your tympanum will be absolutely split by the answering Stoutish " howl " from the four corners of the Empire ! Moreover, you will be bodily knocked flat by the hail of hardly-come-by halfpennies, pennies, yea, and sixpences and shillings with which you will be bombarded, to the discomfiture and shame of the effete, somnolent, prosperous (in a worldly-wise sense) sires, grandsires, and great grandsires of the said Boy Scouts. One thing more. Could not the appeal extend to the dear old Foudroyant' ? And could not the Victory' and the Foudroyant ' ever more float peacefully at Portsmouth with the Tricolour and the Union Jack equi-pendent at the peak of each ? Can't you see the shades of Nelson and Villenueve shaking hands and blessing the " Entente " ?—I am, Sir, &e., LAURENCE C. PERKINS. 84 Hazelbank Road, Gafford, London, S.E. 6.
[Our correspondent's enthusiasm is just what is wanted to save the Victory.' Subscriptions, however, must be sent not to us but to Admiral of the Fleet Sir Doveton Sturdee, Wargrave House, Camberley, Surrey, or to any branch of the London Joint City and Midland Bank.—ED. Spectator.]
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