They not only do it gladly, but expect it will be a half next year, and they will contribute that just as gladly." From the top to the bottom in the Empire, all that is asked at the present time is a protected food and clothing supply, and everything else can go into "the cauldron of war." "Did you ever see anything like it ?" said an American banker in London to me.

"Are n't these people wonderful?
Did you ever see such resolution, such steady work, such sacrifices, such unity of empire ?" It was indeed worth a winter's trip across the ocean to see it.
Although the newspapers complained of the censorship, there was only one general complaint from the people in the British press.

They wanted to know what the regulations were, or were to be, concerning self-defense when the Germans arrive in the country.

Should a citizen without uniform take up arms against the invaders?
Had he a right individually to shoot a German invader?
Was the old rule that an Englishman's home is his castle, and that he has the right to defend it, now superseded by any rules of international warfare?
Some independent people of note were declaiming in the public prints that any German invader of England was a thief and a robber and that any weapons might be used to attack the invaders; and that there was no rule of warfare that could prevent an Englishman defending his home by any weapons against any foreign invaders.
Nevertheless the spirit of the people was, even under invasion, to respect law and order and rules of warfare, and be guided by the government as to all forms of individual or collective defenses.

They simply wanted the rules promulgated.
The English are reconciled to Zeppelin raids from Germany, and rather expect them.