Why do you wish to investigate?
Your country will do nothing--will accept any excuse, any insult and--do nothing.' When McBride told me this, I went at once to the Foreign Office and made a formal request that this metal should be shown to our naval attache, who (since Symington is with the British fleet and McBride has been ordered home) is Lieutenant Towers.

Towers was sent for and everything that the Admiralty knows was shown to him and I am sending that piece of metal by this mail.

But to such a pass has the usual courtesy of a British naval officer come.

There are many such instances of changed conduct.

They are not hard to endure nor to answer and are of no consequence in themselves but only for what they denote.