THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 162, 14 August 1914, Page 6

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

GERMANY'S BATTLE FLEET. But while it rests secure, it also rests powerless arid' impotent to serve Ger-~ many iipon the open seas. It is manifest therefore that, if Britain could suc-ceed.-in keeping. Germany's^navy inert, the European,war might be. conducted from start to finish without causing any serious disturbance to the maritime commerce Wf the worldjsaVe'and except the maritime comriieree of Germany ani Austria. Fox the French Navy would thereby be set free : tp.operate sively in the Mediterranean,- > ; and it is enough, combined with the British Mediterranean aceount for the collective naval-forces of the Triplice in -those waters, i- even should Italy—which is unlikely;—cast her weight upon the Austro-German scale.— "Age." OPULENT PUGILISTS.

It goes against the grain that successful boxers, jockeys and professional buffoons should draw salaries' which a Cabinet Minister may envy. In so "far as these consequences follow from the public lust of spectatbrship, the argument is against the tendencies of modern sport. But, cricket still goes: strong as a national game all ; over the country despite the county matches and the gate money, and a revival of boxing as a fine art will help to : educate the younger generations.T-r 4 *■ Express;" ; ;- :r ! '* . THE SERVIAN ASSASSINATION;

~To*day the outlook of the world is occupied ■■■ with the sheer horror of .the deed, but: yet .its, significance, cannot Jbte lost sight, jof ' h ■. for it ._ shows only too clearly that the annexation of Bosnia and' Herzegovina has tieen an added source of Weakness to" an Empire already sufficiently filled 'with internal troubles, and, many;a bold man- ;mighjt- , >shrink from the .burden, which wjj|l. day_ r ( est oh. the shoulders of the new" Heir to 'the Austro - Hungarian ' * Evening News" (London).' ' ' dbNbESTiON TS 'SYDNEY. : ;;

Iri ; crowded" thoroughfares like Pitt Street, King Street, and Castlereagh Street, where there is barely roqm for a car to pass between the tram and the footpath, the position is now becoming quite' intolerable. "At Circular Quajr the need for separating the two kinds of traffic has also become imperative if serious loss of life is to be avoided.' We shall have a long while yet to wait before the underground trams eom§ to the relief of the situation, and" ''long before that time the present higgledypiggledy system, if not : amended, threatens to- bar certain parts of the city against pedestrian traffic. — tl Daily Telegraph." ' -...-' T ...... .. FEDERAL LABOUR LEADER. . '

The first thing for the ejectors to do is to insist that Mr Fisher "shall get off-. his high horse to the common level and discuss finance on the plane of common sense. One class of the people, /which - foolishly thinks that whatever disasters happen someone else will have to pay, may slavishly applaud his lofty intuitional methods- but until he descends to the question of ways and means, an<i demonstrates that he has some sound! basis upon which to honour his lOU 's to the people, they must class him as NSF and leave the management of affairs in sounder hands. —"Australasian." ■ PATERNALISM OF THE WHITE.

Paternalism may be reluctantly ac-r cepted *by the cultivated Hindu or Egyptian who sees in; the temporary domination of the white races the extension to his own of the blessings of "scientific knowledge, medical experience, and more perfect organisation" of which Dr Dernburg speaks, even although those blessings in the case of many branches of "mankind of darker colour" have been by no means unmixed, and in some eases at least have been simply the blessing of a speedy extinction. But paternalism 'is only possible and can only be tolerable to the ''. subject race'' when its unselfishness is indisputable.—"Daily News."

STATE'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS BANKS. The great English banks have in recent years become issuing houses, issuing local, foreign, and colonial loans. The Continental"banks that "do this kind of business have become very considerable factors in domestic and foreign policies, and we may witness a-similar evolution here. Just as the elimination of competition in the railway world has made it necessary to revise the attitude of the State towards railways so the concentration of banking maymake it necessary to revise the attitude of the State towards the banks. In the formulation of a new policy no statesman of insight can forget the potentialities of the Post Office Savings Bank.—"Daily News." TRANS-PERSIAN RAILWAY. No reasonable man would object to a trans-Persian- Railway built under the same conditions and for purely the same commercial reasons as the 'trans-Turkish Railway through. Bagdad. The opposition to this Russian project is based mainly on the facts that it does not conform to these conditions, that, as its alignment shows, it is not a purely commercial railway, and that its motive, so far as Russia is concerned, is the connection with India, for which there is nothing to be said on commercial grounds, while there is everything to be said against it on military and high political grouu'ds.-—:* ■ Manchester Guardian.' *-