NEWS OF THE WEEK.
N engagement took place in the North Sea in the early hours of Tuesday morning, the results of which would seem flatter- ing to our seamen were they not the familiar and well-earned results of piercing watchfulness, swiftness to attack, and accurate gunnery. A German destroyer flotilla came out of Zeebrugge either on some raiding enterprise, as the German official announce- ment suggests, or else to escape the danger of being hemmed in by ice in the narrow and still waters of that harbour. For our part we incline to take the German suggestion literally on this one point, for the conditions were ideal for an " enterprise." It was a moonless night, and a high spring tide was due such as would carry small craft clear over dangerous banks, and thus give them exceptional freedom of movement.
