Count Reventlow recently published in the New York World an
article entitled "A Year of Naval Warfare," glorifying the achievements of the German and be- littling those of the British Navy. To this Mr. Balfour has replied in a letter addressed to Mr. Tuohy, of the New York World, which appeared in Monday's papers. Mr. Balfour disavows any intention of belittling the courage or skill of the German sailors. "I doubt not," he observes, "that they have done all that was possible both in the honourable warfare to which doubtless they were inclined, and in the dishonour- able warfare required of them by their superiors." But the question is what has been accomplished in the first year of the war by either method. Count Reventlow tells us we have failed to induce the German Fleet to come out and fight us. But that is not a triumph of either tactics or strategy. " The truth is that the German High Sea Fleet has so far done nothing, and probably has not been in a position to do anything."
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