THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 240, 13 November 1914, Page 6

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

RENNENKAMPF'S MISSION. General Bennenkampfs mission was to divert German attention from this movement, and at the same time to strike such hard blows as to attract to the East some part of the German army in France. Bo well did lie perform his task that the Kaiser was compelled to recall 300,000 men from the West —a force which might have turned the scale in. the battle of the Maine. Thus General Bennenkampf had a direct share in winning that great victory.—' ' Daily Mail." OURS THE.LARGER GAINS

The German Fleet, save for its mosquito craft, has not ventured beyond the protection of mines and fortress guns. The British Fleet sweeps tlic high seas by day and by night and in all weathers. We get the larger gains—the freedom of the ocean for our commerce and our transports, while the enemy is shut off from'the world —but our risks arc larger, to be corrected, as we have the best of reasons for believing, by a higher skill and a richer resource. —"Daily News."

CURSE QF MODERN GERMANY. The curse of modern Germany lias been a singularly gross materialism. For form's sake the nation which has delivered itself body and soul to Prussian militarism still keeps as its motto '' God with TJs," but the faith of Germany has not been in God nor in things of the spirit, but in the mighty machine in which men and guns, strategy and cunning, and even black treachery play their parts in harmony—a machine without a soul. — "Evening News" (London),