7 NOVEMBER 1914, Page 15

Lord Fisher has been appointed First Sea Lord of the

Admiralty in succession to Prince Louis of Battenberg. Though we have sometimes felt it necessary to differ from Lord Fisher's opinions, we recognize in him a man of the greatest energy—wonderful in a man of seventy-three--and of marked personality. These qualities will now be directed without stint to the prosecution of the VMS by sea. His method is a kind of grand and universal offensive. His influence will undoubtedly be in the direction of striking hard and striking everywhere that an opening offers.