Mr. Pemberton-Billing, like a new Elijah Pogram, goes on to
advocate a policy of attack and defiance and of " fearless aggression," and we are treated to a fine example of invective by ironical question : " Ingenuity and the skilful bravery of our enemy bring the Zeppelin over our island ; is it Service bitterness. intrigue, and official folly that permit them to return ? " He then draws a charming picture of an ideal anti-Zeppelin aircraft fleet, each unit armed with a gun equal to the range of its own searchlight, and each with a sPeed of eighty miles an hour and able to climb ten thousand feet in not less than twenty minutes. Of course we should all love to see a fleet of that kind, just as many of us *would like to create, if we wore necro- mancers, a fleet of unsinkable monitors armed with 25 in. howitzers, capable of dropping shells upon the homes of the Zeppelins while the ships themselves remained in safety off the coast of Belgium. Mr. Pemberton-Billing ends with a quotation from one of his own articles written in 1909, in which ho tells us we want action, not faith. We agree, but we are bound to point out the boomerang quality of this remark.
