11 AUGUST 1917, Page 1
The Americans, for example, hindered in the past by their
shipping laws, have never been great shipbuilders. That they will do all that they possibly can we are certain ; their spirit is " daily self-surpassed " ; but their yards have yet to be extended and the materials to be collected. The American shipping programme is only just emerging from a period of conflict between two rival schools. Besides, when American vessels are built in large numbers they will be needed to transport the great American Army and to keep it supplied when it has been transported. The time has come for us to recognize that the way to get rid of wasps is not to kill wasps individually but to destroy their nests. It is well known that the chief nests of the submarines ore in Belgium. That is where we must look and act.
