31 OCTOBER 1914, Page 2

The Germans must now be experiencing something of the feeling

which was expressed in one of Napoleon's conversa- tions at St. Helena. If we remember rightly, he told his interlocutor that he could always win on land, but that when be came down to a piece of water deep enough to float a cock. boat he always met the British Navy and was robbed of the results of his victories. Without putting it as high as that, it is very gratifying to think that we bare been able so early in the war to remind the Germans that coast roads are perilous when you have the British against you. If the Germans are annoyed at our action, the proper way to meet us is not by dragging huge siege guns up and down the dunes, but by sending out their capital ships to drive away our flotilla.