So matters go on from bad to worse.
Bryce[9] is very sad.

He confessed to me yesterday the utter hopelessness of the two people's ever understanding one another.
The military situation is very blue--very blue.

The general feeling is that the long war will begin next March and end--nobody dares predict.
W.H.P.
P.S.

There's not a moral shadow of a doubt (1) that the commander of the submarine that sunk the _Arabic_ is dead--although he makes reports to his government! nor (2) that the _Hesperian_ was torpedoed.

The State Department has a piece of the torpedo.
V The letters which Page sent directly to the President were just as frank.