The strong precautions which the Royal Navy is taking to protect British ships in the Mediterranean seem to be entirely justified, if only on account of the Jong list of outrages reported during August. Despite a certain acidity in recalling previous episodes in the dismal record of the Non-Intervention Committee, the commentators in Germany seem to sympathize with that action. Indeed they regard it as belated. From this distance it is quite impossible to hazard any guess at the identity of the submarines which are thus attacking neutral warships and merchant vessels. The situation affords another example of the deterioration of international control, partly. owing to the greatly increased ferocity of modern weapons of war and partly on account of the general weakness of collective methods of discussion.
Vexed as they are with a similar affliction, foreigners in China will sympathetically watch the development of this Mediterranean "undeclared war." It looks as if Europe were back in the late 18th Century when sea communications were maintained only by the combined efforts of the navies and armed merchantmen of the various maritime countries
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