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428 would exhibit all the vices of military organization without those redeeming virtues which, God knows, are needed to redeem warlike operations from the taint of shame. We have been con- fronted with repeated breaches of the law of enlightened warfare, practices analogous to those which in private life are regarded as cheating, and which de- prive persons of country adopting them, or condoning them, of the credit and respect due to honorable soldiers. "We have been confronted with all this. Let us not imitate it. Let us not try to make small retaliations and re- prisals here and there. Let us concen- trate upon the simple, obvious task of creating a military force so powerful that the war, even in default of any good fortune, can certainly be ended and brought to a satisfactory .con- clusion. .However the war began, now that it is started it is a war of self- preservation for us. Our _ civilization, our way of doing things, our political and Parliamentary life, with its voting and its thinking, our party system, our party warfare, the free and easy toler- ance of British life, our method of do- ing things and of keeping ourselves alive and self-respecting in the world-- all these are brought into contrast, into collision, with the organized force of bureaucratic Prussian militarism. "That is the struggle which is opened now and which must go forward with- out pause or abatement until it is set- tled decisively and finally one way or the other. On that there can be no compromise or truce. It is our life or it is theirs. We are bound, having gone so far, to go forward without flinching to the very end. "Now the war has come, and when it is over let us be careful not to make the same mistake or the same sort of mistake as Germany made when she had France prostrate at her feet in 1870. Let us, whatever we do, fight for and work towards great and sound principles for the European sys- tem. And the first of those principles which we should keep before us is the principle of nationality--that is to say, not the conquest or subjugation of any great community or of any strong race of men, but the setting free of those races which have been subjugated and conquered; and if doubt arises about disputed areas of country we should try to settle their ultimate destination in the reconstruction of Europe which must follow from this war with a fair regard to the wishes and feelings of the people who live in them. Phat is the gi which, 11 it. is achieved, will justify the exertions of the. war and will make some amends to the world for the loss and _ suffering, the agony of suffering, which it has THE MARINE REVIEW wrought and entailed, and which will give to those who come after us not only the pride which we hope they will feel in remembering the 'martial achievements of the present age of Britain, but which will give them also a better and fairer world to live in and a Europe free from the causes of hatred and unrest which have poisoned the comity of nations and ruptured the peace of Christendom. "T use these words because this is a war in which we are all together--all classes, all races, all states, principali- ties, dominions and powers throughout the British Empire--we are all together. Years ago the elder Pitt urged upon his countrymen the compulsive invocation, "Be one people.' It has taken us till "now to obey his appeal, but now we are together, and while we remain one people there are no forces in the world strong enough to beat us down or break us up." Trials of the Sewall Ships The four-masted steel ship Edward Sewall, one of the last survivors of the famous Sewall fleet of Bath square- riggers, has just completed at Seattle one of the most remarkable and event- ful trips in' the history of that old firm. Her experience is typical of the windjammers' up-hill fight of- recent years. The Sewall, in command of Capt. November, 1914 Blanca again three weeks after she set out. Further repairs, complicated with trouble with an unruly crew, consumed a month more. On Feb. 26 the Sewall went to sea again, and so completely dropped from commerce lanes that she was given up as lost with all. hands. But on July 3 she came into Honolulu 264 days out from Philadelphia; thou- sands of miles off her course, almost 2 wreck aloft, out of provisions and with crew in a state of collapse from a terrific encounter with a typhoon in the South Pacific. Once more her damages were patched up and _ the harassed square-rigger resumed her voyage, She arrived. at Seattle. 292 days from Philadelphia. 7 But four: vessels remain. of this much decimated fleet, once one of the finest under the American flag. All of them have figured in the news col- umns of late. Lhe ship William P.: Frye, a duplicate of the Sewall, not long ago arrived at San _ [Francisco from Baltimore after a thrilling ex- perience with a smoldering coal cargo off Cape Horn. The four-masted ship Dirigo, which has lately carried two cargoes of grain from Puget Sound to England and thereby carried Old Glory into ports where it has been practically unknown for many years, was feared lost when one of her life buoys was picked up at sea, but came to port safely many days later. FOUR-MASTED STEEL SHIP EDWARD SEWALL, BUILT AT BATH, ME., IN 1899 Quick, sailed from Philadelphia with a cargo of coal for Seattle, on Oct. 19, 1913, and fought head gales clear into the South Atlantic. Off Cape Horn in December she was dismasted in a heavy storm, and ran back over 1,000 miles to Bahia Blanca for repairs. Sailing again after com- pleting them on Jan. 6, 1914, she en- countered another gale and lost more spars and rigging, which forced her to scud before it and seek" Bahia partly -- The Kineo, last of the quartet of Sewall survivors and only steel. five- mast schooner ever built, made a 77- day passage from Port Arthur, Texas, to Providence last spring, which was full of excitement. She arrived at Nassau 42 days out with cargo of lum- ber shifted and with loss of sails and provisions. On going to sea again after making repairs she sprang a leak, and was reported in distress 160 miles off Diamond Shoal. The revenue