The news that the Good Hope and th: Monmouth have been avenged by the sinking of the Scharnhorst, the Gneisenau and the Leipzig will be received by all Britons with deep thankfulness. Assuredly we bear the German ships no grudge. Th> detestable practice of mine-laying in neutral seas, a part of the whole infamous policy of treachery and deceit which Prussianism has deemed itself strong enough to adopt, cannot be laid to the charge of i dividual captains of the German who by all available evidence bravely and chivalrously. So we think with regret of the hundreds of sailors lost the cold waters of the South Pacific.
But we cannot forget our own sailors whose destruction cried for the British Admiral who lai plans so skilfully to catch the dee troyer. It is specially satisfactory that a British squadron should have had the luck to catch the Scharnhorst and her fellows. We are proud and glad to receive Japanese assistance. Yet if it had been a Japanese squadron to whom the enemy fell, it would have been a disappointment. And no one will understand that feeling better than our Allies,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.