THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 242, 16 November 1914, Page 6

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

A WANTON WAR ;.> The Germans ; no longer have any marked advantage in heavy artillery, as the French have brought; up, big guns and are using them .'well. They are committed to that very warfare of attrition which the German Staff most ! dreaded,, and to guard against which it.violated the neutrality of Belgium and Luxemburg. The enemy is becoming stale and is feeling the effect of his terrific losses in officers and men. He is beginning to realise the desperate character of the adventure on which the Kaiser embarked when he made this wanton war. —' * Daily' Mail.?' THE LIES OF BERLIN. ~..

. The Berlin lies are colossal. Nothing is too stupid. Nothing too utterly opposed to probability.. Within the last few days the German public • has been informed that General French; is,a prisoner, that the British Army has-been annihilated, that a large part of 'the British Navy has been sunk, that the Thames docks have been destroyed by Zeppelins, that British soldiers refuse to .fight and are always drunk, and that the' French ascribe their failure to defeat the. enemy to the inefficiency of the British forces.—'' Express." ' : . '.'■^■^■'.'■■: IRELAND'S SYMPATHIES.

As herself a .small : ixation," Ireland has a peculiar symjpstthy for the sufferings of Belgium and Servia at the hands of German andjAAistrian terrorism. That sympathy ' can best be attested, and can alone be effectively ate., tested, by the srpmpt enrolment o£ Irish recruits. We kh<w the difficulties ' in the way, but we 'are tliat if the Nationalist leaders-act up to the spirit of Mr Redmond's recent speeches they can be overcome.—" Daily Mail."