MR. GWYNN AND THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
pro THE EDITOR OF THE "SNECTATOR:'] have only just read Mr. Stephen Gwynn's letter in your number of October 8th. Others have dealt with his dealings with Patrick Ford, but surely it is advisable to notice his disgraceful remark :—" I regard it [i.e., the use of dynamite for revolutionary purposes] as a far less hateful wickedness than, for instance, the policy of the concentration camps. Its victims have been fewer, it has not been hypo- critical." It is true that Mr. Birrell amazed the thinking world by his ridiculous "smoking hecatombs of slaughtered babes" applied to these camps. But surely by this time every honest man has recognised that these concentration camps were in intention one of the most humane acts ever done by a nation at war, and I trust that every Englishman who loves his country will remember Mr. Birmll's and Mr. Gwynn's words when their party asks for our votes.—I am, [The best proof that the camps were humanely meant and humanely carried out is to be found in the fact that even the most bitter traducers of the Government responsible for them did not at the end of the war venture to press for an inquiry into their conduct and management. They knew that the camps were organised to prevent, not to cause, "smoking hecatombs of slaughtered babes."—En. Spectator.]
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