We dealt with the Calais bogy last week, but we
may point out again here that if the Germans were to be so mad after they had taken Calais as to make it their base for invasion, we should be benefited, not injured, thereby. Surprise is the only element in a scheme for invasion which need cause us any great anxiety. But a surprise is infinitely more easy to manage from Emden than from Calais. It is very difficult to know, hour by hour, or even day by day, what is going on at a place so remote as Emden, a place with which our destroyers and other light craft cannot get into touch, and also one which is too distant for our aircraft to fly over. If, however, the Germans were working from Calais we should always know exactly what they were doing and exactly when to expect them. There could be no concealment of German designs there, whether for vessels of wood, of iron, or of aluminium.
