January 20, 1916. 
LAND ' AND WATER 
of the Cattaro harbour. Neither of these opera- 
tions is exceedingly simple. Indeed the problems 
presented are far more serious than those which 
the Grand Fleet would have to face if told to make 
it impossible for the German Fleet to indulge in 
their rare but quite safe little outings in the North 
Sea. Once past the entrance, and anchored oppo- 
site the town of Cattaro in the inner harbour, the 
Austrian Fleet would be at least 11,000 yards 
away in a direct line from the nearest point of the 
coast. To bombard them would present problems 
of almost incredible difficulty. Nothing in our 
experience of the Dardanelles justifies us in the 
hope that this bombardment could have been 
made effective. I am saying this without having 
verified the actual heights of the intervening hills. 
I leave out of account altogether the third course, 
that the Italians might have seized Cattaro by 
destroying the forts and forcing an entrance. 
Agam nothing in our own experience in the bom- 
barding or amphibious line justifies us in supposing 
that this was a feasible operation. 
HONOURS TO SEAMEN. 
Perhaps it is late to comment on the Honours 
List, but there were reasons for postponing its 
discussion. It is, of course, quite without pre- 
cedent that 44 naval officers should be decorated 
all at one time, and I think I am right in adding, 
that never before has a large number of honours 
gone' simultaneously to the Navy in this way, 
unless the services all arose from the same and 
those recent events. In this instance many old 
debts have been paid off. Lord Charles Beres- 
ford's peerage is a belated acknowledgment that 
on many points of naval pohcy he had warned us 
m 'Vain for years, and had to wait for war to 
vindicate the Tightness of his foresight. All ranks 
of the Navy, and the service as a whole, lose by 
this elevation their only spokesman in the House 
of Commons. It certainly wiU be a most for- 
tunate matter if Sir Hedworth Meux succeeds 
him at Portsmouth. When Prince Louis retired 
frona the Board in November last, a very large 
section of the Navy hoped, but without expecting, 
that Admiral Meux would succeed him. He is 
one of the few men whom everyone in the Navy 
would accept as the best possible exemplar of a 
service in v/hich two principles compete— 
thoroughness in the mastery of professional 
accomplishments and knowledge, and an ardent 
—and almost sentimental— regard for the loftiest 
principles of conduct. 
Admiral Sturdee's baronetcy comes 14 
months late. It is a gracious reminder of his 
great services at the Falkland Islands. Would 
it not have been more gracious had it followed 
hot foot on that faultlessly conducted engagement ? 
Sir Reginald Bacon's K.C.B. preceded the publi- 
cation of his most interesting despatch— a de- 
scription of the work of his fleet of monitors. 
Fourteen naval officers, one marine ofiicer and 
two naval surgeons have received knight com- 
panionships in the Orders of the Bath and of St. 
Michael and St. George. Seventeen Rear Ad- 
mirals and post captains, one acting commander, 
two marine officers, three engineer officers, one 
fleet surgeon and one Captain R.N R. receive 
companionships in these two orders. Some of the 
admissions and promotions to the Bath and all, 
except one, of those to St. Michael and St. George, 
are for services in the Mediterranean, the excep- 
tion being that given to Captain Gaunt, whose 
RAEMAEKERS' CARTOON. 
To understand Mr. Louis Raemaekers haunt- 
ing picture of the Kaiser, one must know the legend 
of " The Wandering Jew." The traditional episode 
on which it is based may be thus briefly related : — 
Now ivhen Jesus passed from the hall of 
fudgment, He paused in the porch and imuld 
have rested. But Cartaphilus, the doorkeeper, 
mocked and smote him, saying " Thou shall 
not rest here. Hasten on. This is no place 
for Thee to stay." And Jesus, turning, looked 
on him and said : " Presently I shall rest and 
have peace, but thou shall ever wander on 
and never find peace." 
There are variations of this version but this 
is the oldest. " The Wandering Jew " has 
been familiar in all countries of Christendom ; he 
came into prominence in England in the thirteenth 
century, when he bore the name of Joseph. We 
next hear of him in Germany in the sixteenth century. 
He appeared then at Hamburg, and had assumed 
the name of Ahasuerus. This is the Ahasuerus 
ivhose return Raemaekers depicts. The West Indies, 
Italy, Belgium, Spain and France are other 
countries that have known him, and strange to 
relate in Picardy untirquite recent times {possibly 
the saying persists even noiv) when a very violent 
storm broke over that country, the peasants would 
remark : " C'est le juif errant qui passe." 
Germany now realises the effect which Rae- 
maekers' cartoons are exercising on the mind and 
soul of civilisation, and as is natural' she bullies 
and threatens. The " Cologne Gazette," in a 
leading article on Holland writes : — " After the 
war we will settle our accounts with you (Holland). 
For each calumny, for each cartoon of Raemaekers. 
for each insult, J or each cinematograph film, for 
each theatrical performance which is offensive to 
us, we shall demand payment with the interest 
that is due to us." 
work as naval attache in America has been of 
almost unparalleled skill, tact and efficiency. 
What is peculiar about this hst is, that in no 
single instance are the services rewarded specified. 
In certain cases, as for instance those of Sir 
Michael de Robeck, Sir Sackville Garden, Sir 
Arthur Limpus, Sir Henry Oliver, Sir Reginald 
Bacon, Rear- Admiral Singer and Commodores 
and Captains Keyes, Hope and Greatorex, the 
field and manner of the services which have won 
honour are known to the public. As to the 
employment of the rest, the Navy hst has long been 
silent ; so that three-quarters of those who are 
selected for honours are without other pubHc 
fame except such as being honoured confers ! 
Could anything testify more eloquently to the 
secrecy with which the Navy must do its work ? 
And this is a secrecy into which the public will do 
well not to pry. One comment seems permissible 
and it arises as much from the promotion list, 
which again is exceptionally large, as from the 
honours list. We all recognise that we cannot 
have from Sir John Jellicoe and the other Com- 
manders-in-Chief, anything approaching to the 
very full, and in some cases very brilliant dis- 
patches, as those in which the Field Marshal and 
Generals on land have described the operations 
in Flanders, France, Gallipoli and elsewhere^ 
But clearly their full dispatches on all the 
