2 APRIL 1988, Page 5

IN LAST week's leading article, we sug- gested that Corporals

Wood and Howes 'were on an undercover operation' on the day on which they were murdered by the mob in Belfast. This suggestion seems to have been mistaken, and we apologise for making it. Our information is that the two men did engage in undercover work, but were not doing so on the occasion when they were killed.