THE SEA FIGHT AND THE KAISER.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR?"[
SIR,—The enclosed cutting from the Nall Street Journal of June 12th may interest you. I think that the little paragraph hits the nail very wisely.—I am, Sir, &c.. HENRY HERBERT. 32 Woodstock Road, Bedford Park.
"OUR INTEREST IN TUE SEA FICIRT.
In congratulatory dispatches and speeches, the Kaiser states that his fleet fought and defeated the gigantic fleet of Albion.' He hall repeated the substance of this statement several times. Also in a speech made three days after the battle, ho said of the British fleet that its supremacy was shattered.' These statements are not unimportant in the United States. Germans and German sympathizers have bitterly accused the United States of unneutrality in selling supplies to the Allies. It is admitted that international law permits this. It is not even denied that Germany sold arms to Spain while at war with the United States in 1898. But they claim that present conditions should alter the law ; that if one side could not reach our ports to get supplies we should not sell to the other (which happened to be their enemy) ; the British fleet shut them off from our markets. That impediment is now removed. The complaining party publicly proclaims its removal. Ho has shattered it. All who wish to 'buy of the United States are free to do so now. In defeating the British fleet, we have the Kaiser to thank for disposing of further talk of unneutrality, and agitation for an embargo on munitions of war."
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