We are glad to note that the Army Council has
issued a stringent Order prohibiting private applications to the War Office. Officers are forbidden in future to write private letters to, or seek interviews with, War Office officials (unless with the special leave of their commanding officers) ; and attempts to use outside influence are not only forbidden, but will be regarded as an admission by the officer resorting to them "that his case is not good on its merits, and it will be dealt with accordingly?' Letters written and interviews asked for by outsiders on behalf of an officer will be deemed to have been inspired by him unless he can prove that he had "no knowledge, direct or indirect, of such application." After this drastic Order, efforts to make interest for an officer will do him a dire injury. Let us hope its spirit will be fully maintained. If it is, we shall have heard the last of the "feminine influence" so much talked of in recent years.
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