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Our last word for the present is to express a

hope that should the matter not be cleared up, as we still trust it may be, by a satisfactory statement in Parliament, the Press will show proper restraint in its handling of the matter. Nothing could be more undesirable than an undignified attack upon the German Emperor, even supposing he has committed an indiscretion such as is alleged. It may conceivably be necessary to mark the national disapproval of the policy of a Minister who made such an indiscretion possible, but we shall look very foolish if we scream and talk big merely because a foreign Monarch has formed so astonishingly mistaken a judgment as to the proper methods of influencing British policy.

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