14 AUGUST 1920, Page 3

Mr. Arthur Spurner sent to the papers of Wednesday a

letter on behalf of the Leyland Motors Co., Ltd., with regard to the Report of the Select Committee on the disposal of the St. Omer dump and the ensuing debates on that subject in the House of Commons. Mr. Spurner argues that although Colonel Spurner, who represented the Disposal Board, is a brother to two directors of the Leyland firm—one of them the writer of the letter—the Government made a better bargain in selling the dump than the firm made in buying it. Mr. Spurrier then supports his conten- tion by detailing numerous facts which we can well believe are perfectly true, and which in any case we need not dispute.