The incredible happened on Thursday week, when the chief part
of the German High.Sea Fleet appeared off the Forth and surrendered to Admiral Beatty, commanding the Grand Fleet. Germany's nine most powerful battleships, five battle-cruisers, seven light cruisers, and forty-nine destroyers steamed into the-Forth, escorted by the British, American, and French warships, and there at sunset hauled down their flags. " The Day " had come• for the German Navy in the most humiliating guise that a sailor could conceive. The best units of the mighty fleet that. once challenged our naval supremacy now lie in our care at Scapa Flow. The peaceful sur- render of the ' U '-boats at Harwich continues. By Wednesday a hundred and fourteen of these pests had given themselves up. British minesweepers have gone to clear the passages into the Baltic. When this has been done, a British squadron will visit Kiel to see that the remnant of the German Navy is paid off and disarmed, under the terms of the armistice. Thus the Baltic will be reopened to our commerce.
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