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Yet again, is there any instruction that proxy papers are

to be sent in duplicate by different ships ? No doubt a certain number of them Will be torpedoed. Whether the prosecution of the war would or would not be served by such torpedoing is too nice a problem to enter upon here. It is enough to say that the Germans will not be able to discriminate between ships which carry these importan t documents and those which do not. If the General Election is to be the complete affair imagined by its advocates, it will take months of careful preparation. As for the actual voting, it may be that it will never come to a satisfactory conclusion. We can fancy that votes from, say, a ship at Singapore or the British force at Baku would still be in dispute years after the war was ended.