It would take several years to kill that vast horde of Germans, but it will not take so long to starve them out.

Food here is practically as cheap as it was three months ago and the sea routes are all open to England and practically all closed to Germany.

The ultimate result, of course, will be Germany's defeat.

But the British are now going about the business of war as if they knew they would continue it indefinitely.

The grim efficiency of their work even in small details was illustrated to-day by the Government's informing us that a German handy man, whom the German Ambassador left at his Embassy, with the English Government's consent, is a spy--that he sends verbal messages to Germany by women who are permitted to go home, and that they have found letters written by him sewed in some of these women's undergarments! This man has been at work there every day under the two very good men whom I have put in charge there and who have never suspected him.