Letter from Admiral Sir Reginald Custance, (Half Moon Street, Piccadilly [London]), to WSC, pointing out that the system of patrol on a fixed position, or line or area, was "radically unsound, dangerous and totally unnecessary". Custance goes on to state that successful operations to the south needed to be controlled by officers on the spot, not from London, and that the Navy needed to go on the offensive, rather than wait to be attacked.