‘An apology’, from The Spectator, 12 September 1914: We are informed that a story told in a letter from a correspondent signing herself ‘A Country District Visitor’, and published on August 22nd, 1914, has had an injurious effect upon Mr C.H. Schuhmacher, Chemist, of Heswall, Cheshire. In contradiction of the statements quoted in that letter, we are now informed that Mr Schuhmacher is a natural-born British subject of English parentage on his mother’s side, and that his only son, Mr Cyril Schuhmacher, is serving this country with the Liverpool Scottish.