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danger. This will never be. Nobody will remember 
this war with pleasure. Let us end it and organise peace. 
To hush up this desire for peace because it would prove 
our weakness is folly. Germany has learned the mysterious 
ivays of Providence." 
it is hardly necessary to ])(jiut tlie moral of Hi'rr 
Harden's words. The ominous arming of the Dutch, 
the hardly less ominous silence of the American (Govern- 
ment, these things tell their own tale. The wholesale 
destruction of neutral ships has long since made all 
civilised people condemn the Germans in their con- 
sciences. These judgments cannot indetinitely remain 
untranslated into action. In the case of Holland and 
Denmark, their land frontiers are so vulnerable as to 
make the initiation of action against Germany as 
quixotic an affair as was the belligerence of Belgium. 
Both probably would fight as brayely as did Belgium 
if war were forced upon them. But to begin it them- 
selves is another story^ No such danger threatens 
America. There the obstacles to defending the national 
dignity and to following the dictates of national honour 
are domestic, not foreign. But those obstacles are being 
slowly but surely removed. It is at any rate as clear as 
noonday now that President Wilson will not abate his 
insistence that the submarine cannot ever be a legitimate 
vessel in the war on commerce. There is no reconcilia- 
tion possible then between American principle and the 
German practice. What the Americans are beginning to 
see is that there is no reconciliation possible between 
American principle and American practice. The folly 
of the Tirpitz programme, clear as the sun in heaven to 
all dispassionate observers, so clear to Maximilian Harden 
that he sees no alternative between national ruin and 
immediate peace, will perhaps not be made intelligible 
to the Germans until its inevitable fruit, the belligerency 
of America, at last brings it home to them. It may 
need this to lift the veil from the mystery of Providential 
ways. 
The Schleswig Raid 
At the time of writing last week we had practically 
no details of the affair off the Island of Sylt. There was 
little to record then beyond the fact that three seaplanes 
had been lost in attack on the Zeppelin bases at Toudern, 
and that the aircraft that made the attack had been 
brought to the North Frisian archipelago by Conunodorc 
Tyrwhitt's light cruiser squadron. We have still no 
detailed account of the proceedings, but there is enough 
to show that brilliant work was done in circumstances of 
quite extraordinary difficulty. According to telegrams 
from Danish sources, Commodore Tyrwhitt's achance 
was disputed by five cruisers, 20 destroyers, 5 hydro- 
planes and the Zeppelin L14. But they do not seem to 
have put up much of a fight, for no damage to any British 
ship is reported as inflicted by the enemy, there seems to 
have been no killed and wounded, and the only loss 
is three seaplanes, all of which were compelled to descend 
but her people were taken on board a destroyer, so that 
there was no loss of life. 
The Naval Action 
The Scotsman has published a vivid account of what 
took place, from which it a])pears that the venture was 
made in a high sea and a blinding snowstorm. It nuist 
have been Quiberon ovcp again, though on a small scale. 
Two armecl (jerman trawlers were sunk. A destroyer 
was rammed by the Cleopatra, and a battle hydroplane 
was brought down. At lirst it was believed that a 
submarine was dcsti-oyed also, but this the (lermans 
deny. The German cruisers do not seem t'> have cut 
much of a figure, but it is probable that Commodore 
Tyrwhitt's ships were better handled, and that his 
gunnery was more equal to the severe conditions. They 
probably showed a wise • discretion in keeping away. 
In the heavy weather the destroyers would have been 
exceedingly difficult to handle. The writer in the Scots- 
man says that several destroyers retreated in flames and 
badly hit. That one was run down by Cleopatra would 
leave one to suppose that it was either unmanageable or 
SORTES SHAKESPEARIAN^, 
By SIR SIDNEY LEE. 
THE KING'S GIFT. 
/ thank Ihee, King, 
For thy great bounty. 
RICHARD II., IV., i,, 299-300. 
Mr. ASQUITH IN ROME. 
Set xve forward; let 
A Roman and a British ensign zvave 
Friendly together. 
CYMBEUNE V, v. 4E0-2. 
by engine trouble 
enemy's fire. One 
-not as I supposed last week by th-. 
ship. Medusa, was lust liy collision, 
PRESIDENT WILSON'S NEXT NOTE TO COUNT 
BERNSTORFF: A SANGUINE FORECAST. 
/ ivill not. look upon your master s lines • 
I know they are sltiff 'd with protestations 
And full of nctv-found oaths, which he 
will bi-eak 
As easily as I do tear his paper. 
TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERON.V, IV. iv.. 1.35-8 
