SIR,—Although I do not wish to defend the Daily Mirror,
there is one aspect of the case which has, I believe, received no mention in the Press. The Daily Mirror has repeatedly criticised those officers of lower Field Rank who deliberately ignore the instructions of the Army Council on matters such as the polishing of equipment and brasswork on guns. The men under my command feel that the Daily Mirror is their champion and, what is more important, believe that it has been warned not for its vices, but for its justifiable, though in- convenient, exposure of certain abuses. The grievances of the troops and the disobedient habits of some officers are matters of public con- cern, and it is unfortunate that the investigation of such problems has been left, to a grea extent, in the hands of the Daily Mirror. All parties would benefit if th.: more responsible papers combined their traditional decency with the vigilance and the zest which have been displayed, in the matters mentioned above, by the paper in question.
—Yours truly, Acx-Ac.g.
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