There is only an occasional bright spot " amid the
encircling gloom" of post-War European trade. 'This 'time it is the HarwichZeebrugge train-ferries -that have preserved to us some tattered vestiges of hope. it is, of course, amazing that .no regular commercial -train-ferry service has hitherto been established across the Channel, but now the North-Eastern Railway and the Belgian 'Government have made admirable arrangements for such a service. The advantages to British and European commerce are obvious. And it is only by the easy flow of trade—peaceful penetration, in other words—that hatred and suspicion can "be dispelled and true peace and understanding be established in their stead. That such a good instrument as this train-ferry service should have come as it did out of a Government War-time measure may seem -too good to be true.
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