4 MARCH 1916, Page 2

We shall not deal with the German threats of greater

frightfulness at sea, except to say that up till Thursday evening there was no news of the now sea campaign, which was timed to begin at twelve o'clock on Tuesday night. Of course, stows of disasters by submarines always comes slowly, but for ourselves wo see no ground for anything like alarm. In this context we may add that the more desperate the Germans become, and the more firmly they are held on land, the more certain it is that they will try a great adventure at sea. They are not going to acknowledge defeat, or even failure or stale- mate, till they have tried what their High Sea Fleet can do.