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in the event of the route through the Suez Canal being interrupted; and a battle squadron permanently located at the entrance to the Mediterranean, a "fertile area," where "trade tends to be crowded,"^[1] will be well placed either for the purpose of reinforcing the Cruiser Squadron at Malta or the British Fleets in the Home waters, which, in their turn, can at any moment spare ample vessels to make the Mediterranean Fleet superior to any possible combination against it.

TABLE II^[2]

ATLANTIC OCEAN (IRISH WATERS)

3rd Squadron of the 1st Fleet:				No German Fleet.
Battleships			6
Armoured Cruisers	4	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	7
Protected Cruisers	3

The Atlantic Fleet is in future to be based on home ports instead of Gibraltar, and is to be brought up during the year from six to eight battleships.

1. See "Attack and Defence of Trade" in Some Principles of Maritime Strategy, p. 263, by Julian S. Corbett, LL.M.
2. Brassey's Naval Annual for 1912, p. 71.