Grand Admiral von Tirpitz, freed against his will from the
cares of office, is now working hard to organize a new German party of what may be called super-Jingoes. He said last week that "it is not wrong but right that has been done to Belgium," and this blunt utterance shows that the Grand Admiral is not seeking peace along the only path open to Germany. "The Belgian question," he told a representative of a Budapest journal, "can be solved in various ways, but the main thing is that we, and not England, must maintain the protecting domination over Belgium." There can be no peace for Germany, as Lord Milner said the other day, until doctrines of that kind are abandoned. The Grand Admiral snoke less confidently than before Of the possibility of gaining a " real freedom of the seas," or, in plain words, of destroying our naval supremacy. "That can only be attained by a grouping of the Powers "—and not, as we used to be told, by the exertions of the High Canal Fleet through its submarines.
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