Everyone is glad that the Amethyst' and her gallant company
are home again, slipping into Plymouth Sound past Rome Head and Cawsand Bay, like so many famous vessels from Drake's ' Golden Hind' onwards. Their reception in London is still to come, and no one, certainly, will grudge it them. At the same time It is well to keep a reasonable sense of proportion at all times, and I am bound to express my admiration of the tact with which the Naval Correspon- dent of The Times, himself an admiral, has set the ' Amethyst's' great feat of navigation down the Yangtse from Nanking to Shanghai in its right relation with many uncelebrated feats of units of the Royal Navy during the war. The first to express accord with him, without a doubt, would be the ship's company of the Amethyst' herself. Most of them, it may be gathered, will be genuinely relieved when
the tumult and the shouting dies. *
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