2 DECEMBER 1916, Page 2

Happily the Daily Mail's violence is likely to defeat its

own mat There will- be literally thousands of people who, though inclined to think that Mr. Balfour has not been as active and stimulating a force at the Admiralty as be might have been, will feel, after reading eueli as article as that to which we are referring, that they will not lend a.scintilla of support to any movement directed against him. It is amusing to note that one of the crimes with which Mr. Balfour is- charged is that when the submarine peril became acute he did not insist forthwith on the arming of all our merchantmen " with knn.3 to fire ahead and astern-and abeam."