28 DECEMBER 1918, Page 20

The Free Seas en War. By Sir Francis Piggott. (P.

S. King. Is_ 6d. net.)—This admirable pamphlet explains simply and clearly why Great- Britain, always the champion of the freedom of the sea in time of peace, has steadily refused to admit that the see can be free to her enemy in time of war. The neutrals have repeatedly claimed the unrestricted right to trade with belligerents, but we have never admitted, and can never admit, such a claim. Germany's demand for" the freedom of the sea" goes still further, for it means nothing less than German domination of the sea, as Count Reventlow for. One has frankly admitted. Some extracts from the writings of David Urquhart on this subject are appended to the may.