During the past week a German raid was generally expected,
and is still expected and in accordance with that belief, all the necessary precautions have been taken. Whether the Germans ever intended or now intend a raid it is, of coarse, impossible to say. On the whole we are inclined to think that the activity lately noticeable in various quarters was due rather to a desire to prevent us from sending more troops to Flanders than to any serious decision to launch a forlorn hope against our shores. [We say " forlorn hope" advisedly, not forgetting that for- lorn hopes are by no means always hopeless, but often achieve a lodgment in a city's defences, and sometimes do a great deal more.] In any case, it must be good business for the Germans to worry ns not merely with talk about raids, but with actual serious preparations for raids. Keep your foe as much as possible on the jump, is good sea strategy.
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