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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOIL1 Ste,---In reference to the

article, " December 1916: a Question of History," which Mr. II. Wilson Harris contributes to your issue of May 28th, may I be permitted to make one state- ment? Mr. Wilson Harris writes, "Mr Bonar Law has appar- ently left no record of the incident." Mr. Bonar Law has left a complete record. A few weeks after the crisis he told me that he had written a full explanation of every step taken, and that he had caused the document to be deposited in a certain hank to be kept there for a certain number of years. He had no doubt in his own mind as to the rectitude of his actions in the matter.--I am, Sir, &c.,