S IR EDWARD CARSON'S statement on submarine warfare in the House
of Commons on Wednesday turned on the electric light in a dark room. It was thoroughly informing, bracing, and reassuring— always with the reservation that the power to mar as well as to make victory remains in the hands of the British people, who are now required to put forth their supreme efforts in industry and self-denial. The country has never before been told so much about the situation or promised so much information for the future. This, we are sere, is the right and sound way of treating a democratic people. But the reverse is also true, that a people who are worthy of being entrusted with the truth must also he considered capable of distinguishing between what can and what cannot safely bo published. The second part of the doctrine implicit in Sir Edward Carson's statement comes into operation in dealing with the numbers of German submarines which have been sunk.
