2 FEBRUARY 1918, Page 15

THE AREA OF NEWFOUNDLAND.

(To THE EDITOR or um " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—/ cannot imagine how you allowed a letter to appear in your columns stating that Newfoundland had the area stated. It is roughly some 40,000 square miles, or one-third of the area of the British Isles. Your correspondent should apologize for so gross

a misstatement.—I am, Sir, &c., E. T. HARGREAVES. 80 Coleman Street, E.C. 2.

[Our correspondent's statement was correct. The Colony of Newfoundland, as most people know, includes not only the island, of 42,000 square miles, but also the Labrador coast, of 120,000 square miles, and is thus larger than the British Isles.—ED. Spectator.]