In reply to an inquiry from Mr. Havelock Wilson as
to the attitude of French sailors towards the Germans after the war, M. Rivelli, the secretary of the Federation des Inscrits Maritimes, has stated that the two hundred thousand French seamen will act with British seamen in instituting a strict boycott of Germans after the war. "Mr. Havelock Wilson and our British comrades will see that we do not forget, and that we never mean to forget." The Allied and neutral seamen have suffered terrible things at the hands of an enemy who has violated the ancient brotherhood of the sea, and has set the elementary principles of humanity at de- fiance. The German pirates will find that, our sailors have long memories, and are resolved to exact punishment. It is useless for landsmen to moralize on the subject of forgiveness. The sailors will have their own way.
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