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An example of the French quickness to diseqver an unfriendly

motive where none is intended or even imagined occurs in the comments which the Temps has been making about the manoeuvres of the British Mediterranean and Atlantic Fleets. It is pointed out that the junction of these two Fleets inside the Mediterranean is "a practice attack" upon the route between France and North Africa. The simple reasons for the manoeuvres which satisfy every Englishman, that the Mediterranean is our high road to the East, and that it is a convenience to base naval exercises on Gibraltar and Malta, no doubt seem to many French commentators quite unreal.

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