30 NOVEMBER 1918, Page 13

NORTH-EAST ULSTER AND GREAT BRITAIN. (To ma EDITOR OF THE

" SPECTATOR.") Sia,—In your issue of November 23rd you state that "every inch of the cloth used for our aeroplanes has been manufactured in and around Belfast." May I point out that a large proportion of the cloth used for this purpose has been made from cotton, which has been spun and woven in Lancashire ?—I am, Sir, Sic., [Our words, we confess, were a rhetorical flourish. Scotland, as well as England, has manufactured a good deal of aeroplane cloth. —En. Spectator.]