The Huns, with that genius for mendacity which they have exhibited throughout the war, claimed to have defeated the British Navy—a claim based presumably on the idea that "he who fights and runs away will live to fight another day." Subsequent events must have convinced even their own people of the fallacy of that claim, and there remains the proven fact that with their whole forces in action they refused to face more than a quarter of our Fleet.
CHAPTER VI
"AND AFTERWARDS ... WHAT THEN?"
... They leaped at the sun
To give it their loving friends to keep;
Naught man could do have they left undone,
And you see their harvest, what they reap.
. . . . . .
In triumphs, people have dropped down dead—