There is in Great Britain no doubt as to the
character of the outrage on the Dogger Bank, which the King himself in a telegram to the Mayor of Hull describes as "unwarrant- able," an adjective evidently chosen, with the King's habitual tact, as the one which best unites a maximum of indignant protest with a minimum of insult to the Russian Govern- ment. The Secretary for the Colonies, at a municipal banquet in Leamington on Tuesday, declared that reparation must not only be full, but prompt, for the outrage "must have been the result either of a murderous intention or of wicked negligence." We quote below the opinion of the official Leader of the Opposition, and of the First Lord of the Admiralty, and need only add here that the tone of the daily Press has, in spite of the great provocation, been on the whole calm and reserved.
