FOOTNOTES
[1] Was that our Sea Policy during the War? Did we not keep our Fleet in cotton wool?
[2] These mottoes were painted up in my first ship, and I have had them in every ship I have commanded since.
[3] One Sample out of Many.—“Lord Tweedmouth and Mr. Robertson, having tasted blood in their reduction of this year’s Estimates, are about to strike a blow at the vital efficiency of the Navy. But what are we to think of the naval officers on the Admiralty Board, men who cannot plead the blindness and ignorance of their civilian colleagues? No one knows better than Sir John Fisher the real nature and the inevitable consequences of those acts to which he is a consenting party. And we are not speaking at random when we assert that more than any one man, the responsibility and the guilt for those reductions lies at his door.” (The Globe, 21 Sept. 1906.)
[4] This was written in October, 1906.
[5] Not reprinted.
[6] There are two alternative schemes which may possibly be preferred to this.
[7] The “Pegasus” was massacred at Zanzibar by the Germans!—F. 1919.
[8] For these predictions, see Letter to Lord Esher of (?) Jan., 1904 “Memories,” p. 173.