The Standard of Thursday makes a most interesting sugges- tion,
and one which we sincerely trust will take practical shape. It is that owners of motor-boats, craft which we excel in building, and which are now becoming the instruments of a very fashionable and exciting sport, should be organised as sea-scouts. As the Standard points out, if in time of war or danger the home seas were scouted up and down by such vedette boats, a great deal of very useful information might be obtained, for the motor-boat, besides its immense speed, is so small as to offer little or no target to an enemy. The Standard, however, warns owners of such boats that they must train themselves properly, and not imagine that it is the duty of a scout to rush back the moment he sees, or fancies he sees, an enemy, and report a wondrous and tragic tale. Information carried by scouts is worse than useless unless the scout bears the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. WO most sincerely trust that the patriotic suggestion of our contemporary will bear fruit, and that the Admiralty will find means to make use of these light-heeled coursers of the sea.
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