On Wednesday Mr. Balfour at the Empire Theatre introduced to
a large audience a -series of cinematograph --films entitled " Britain Prepared," taken with thapermiasionand-cooperation of the Admiralty and the War Office. • It was Mr. Ba.lfour's task to bring-home to the audience the full significance of the part played by the Navy in the war. We-cannot poasibly better his description of what we owe to the Grand Fleet :- " Tho Grand Fleet, which as a Grand Fleet has never yet had the opportunity of -being in action, nevertheless.has, from-hour to hour 'and day to-day throUgh all the months 6L this war,: been the founda- . .cion on■whiok everything else has rested.- But lor.the Grand Fleet' you could not have driven the enemy's. commerce from the seas, you could not now be strangling her economic position,-.you-could not; now be transferring your troops freely backwards and forwards from Great Britain to France, from Canada to 'Britain, from Australia to ' Egypt; you could not -now be -carrying -on military operations -thousands, of miles :from our shores, absolutely secure -from every 'species. of attack by any vessel other than the submarine."
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