Our comments last week on the half-hearted character of the
attacks upon Zeebrugge, and the need for freeing us from the wasps by destroying the wasps' nests, have been made the occasion fcr a good many letters endorsing our views. The publication of such letters might be considered injurious to the public interest at the present time. Nevertheless we desire to point out to our correspondents that, though their protests against our failure in the past to act by sea may be well justified, those considerations do act hold in regard to land strategy. We must never forget that one ef our great difficulties up till now—though, Heaven be praised ! that difficulty is largely over—has been that we have never had the power of initiative. That has always belonged to the enemy. They have so far always been able to call the tune, and we have ism obliged to dance to their piping. We have often, no doubt, out-danced them and made them sorry that they piped, but still we have had to fight where they chose, and not in a place of our own chocsing.
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