The first public sitting of the North Sea Inquiry Commission
was held on Thursday afternoon, when the cases of the British and Russian Governments were formally presented. The Commission will next proceed to hear evidence in support, and then, after private deliberation, formulate their conclusions. Since the matter is sub judice, we do not propose to comment upon the merits of the two cases, except to note that they are substantially the same as have already been published in the Press. The British case makes a point of the fact that a Swedish ship, the Aldebaran,' was fired on by the Russians on the evening before the Dogger Bank incident, and that a trawler was fired on the next morning about seven o'clock. The Russian case repeats the story of the strange torpedo- boats, and insists that in the circumstances the Admiral was justified even in an a ttack which might involve innocent vessels.
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