30 SEPTEMBER 1911, Page 12

THE IRISH STRIKE.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—In your leading article in last Saturday's Spectator on the Irish strike you state that " live fowls were left to perish on the deserted platforms." I think it is only fair to say that whenever live fowls were stranded on the lines affected by strike they were fed by the station-masters and the railway officials before they were Bent back whence they came.—I am,