“However, a wordy war is no use; nothing but a cataclysm will stop our ‘Facilis descensus Averni.’” We must by some political miracle swallow up Korah, Dathan and Abiram and have a fresh lot. In Parliament we have nothing but the _suggestio falsi_ and the _suppressio veri_! A little bit of truth skilfully disguised: “A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats any lie you can invent.” In reply to your question with reference to Mr. Bonar Law’s corrected statement in Hansard, the Printer’s date at the bottom of the Submarine Paper,[18] sent to the Prime Minister and First Lord of the Admiralty is January, 1914, seven months before the War. Yours always, FISHER. _Lord Fisher to Sir Maurice Hankey, K.C.B., Secretary to the War Cabinet._ 19, ST. JAMES’S SQUARE. MY DEAR HANKEY, In reply to your inquiry, my five points of peace (as regards Sea war only) are: (1) The German High Sea Fleet to be delivered up intact. (2) Ditto, every German Submarine. (3) Ditto, Heligoland. (4) Ditto, the two flanking islands of Sylt and Borkum. (5) No spot of German Territory in the wide world to be permitted! It would infallibly be a Submarine Base. Yours, (Signed) FISHER, _October 21st, 1918_. (Trafalgar Day). Why we were not as relentless in carrying out our Peace requirements at Sea as on Land is positively incomprehensible. The German Fleet was not turned over and was afterwards sunk at pleasure by the German crews. I don’t feel at all sure that every German submarine, complete and incomplete, was handed over. Every oil engine ought to have been cleared out of Germany. Through some extraordinary chain of reasoning, absolutely incomprehensible, the three Islands of Heligoland, Sylt and Borkum were not claimed and occupied. In view of the prodigious development of Aircraft it was imperative that these Islands should be in the possession of England. All this to me is absolutely astounding. The British Fleet won the War, and the British Fleet didn’t get a single thing it ought to have, excepting the everlasting stigma amongst our Allies, of being fools, in allowing the German Fleet to be sunk under our noses, because we mistook the Germans for gentlemen. _The Miracle of the Peace_ (_that took place at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th Month!_) only equalled by the Destruction of Sennacherib’s Army, on the night described in the 25th verse of the 19th chapter of Second Book of Kings! The heading of the chapter is “_An Angel slayeth the Assyrians_.”