FOXTON’S PATRIOTIC FUNDS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1336, 15 December 1914, Page 4

FOXTON’S PATRIOTIC FUNDS.

The following are the total amounts contributed locally to the different patriotic funds :

Empire Defence Fund, £245 x6s. Helping Hand Fund, is 6d. Expeditionary Force Equipment to the value of .£163.

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sider, and altogether. I for one refuse to believe that any German submarine can manage to be self-supporting for ten days under war conditions. Assuredly those ton-day submarines must have floating bases o [some sort, bases which can. hardly have proceeded out of tlic Heligoland Bight, unless they were established at least nine weeks ago. BASES NECESSARY. Wo have got, to face the circumstance that Germany is not basing her efforts against us from her own shores. She has probably been particularly careful so to arrange matters that no neutral is either involved or subjected. But bases of some kind must exist. It is none too soon that we have virtually closed North Sea- traffic except to vessels conducted by our own pilots. We, perhaps, ought to have, done, it the instant that the Amphion was lost, without regard to neutral susceptibilities. No honest neutral can possibly object to the precautions whicli we. have taken. All neutrals, save the Dutch, have suffered badly from the German system of indiscriminate mine-laying. The only possible answer was to lay mines everywhere where the Germans have not done so. but apparently mean to lay them. BRITISH NAVAL STRATEGY.

It is, of course, the duty of tho British Navy to “smash tho enemy.” But a higher and more important duty still is to seo to it that the -enemy is romlored impotent. Tho unfortunate tiling is that quite a. considerable section of the public is of opinion that ‘■the navy is doing nothing,” on account of the fact that it lias done its work so well that the main Gorman Fleet prefers to keep out of danger. Will the public which demands an impossible Trafalgar he good enough to realise that for years the German view of things has 'publicly been stated and restated ad nansenm. "No matter what the circumstances. the plain duty of the German Fleet is to attack. Only in the attack can victory reside.’’ This attack has not been delivered. It is unlikely to lie delivered until economic pressure forces it. lint why not ? Simply because the British is too much in the way. The High Sea Fleet has no prospects whatever of advantage by coming out. In consequence it remains inactive. To adopt a chess simile —it is ‘ in check.” The ultimate result may be “checkmate.” or it may he merely “stale, mate” (for which the Gormans are playing). But why expect that A-U mi ral del icon should go in for a reckless exchange of pieces which at the host could merely provide headlines "for the daily Press? Or, to pub it another way, would any card player as fourth hand with tlie fourth diamonds in his hand play 1m ace to take the three? Germany s game and Germany’s hope is that the, British public.'looking for a Trafalgar, will demand the ace to he pvt down. GKII.MANY’S “GAME.”

lii the strongest possible fashion 1 wish to impress that Germany's game is based, on the expectation that presently the British nation will demand that the na.vv ‘"does something,” tmstin.r to luck that the. things really, accomplished by it. being inconspicuous, will not count. A Trafalgar won by the men in the street” is an unthinkable thing along all the lines of past history. But the past is the past. The present wills along hitherto unknown lines. i<> sav that it is being fought in the streets </ London sounds hyperbole ad absiir<l uin. Yet it is something like the situation. . ~ A good thousand years ago tlio allpowerful Athenian Navy met its doom lieeause the democracy put in its oar wrongly. On the people of England today it depends that tho same old mistake i.s not repeated with the same terrible result. If the man in tho street can be peisiiaded to crab the navy, and to insist on its “doing something, Germany is miiug to win. H, mi the othei hanii. the man in the street will merely remain indifferent and “trust the navv.” Germany’s chances sink to w-ro. 'l’ims, inid in such way, the twentieth century Trafalgar has to be fought by the public, ami the. only weapon is b ind confidence, in tho British Navy. Blind coufifU'noc* Ik* it iiotod. It i'iay ta-ko Romo iloiny;,. but it lias to bo <lono-