THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 248, 23 November 1914, Page 6

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

GERMAN COAST SAFE. . It is, however, true that. Germany'» coast would be, just as safe irom attack if it did not' possess a Single battleship or armoured cruiser. Her; shoal waters now mined, unmarked, an 4 in darkness, ; are her first protection, an 4 her; treriiendous forts arid coast defences-are her second line. To force both of these would take a very large body of men and of 'ships, and the .',' DUt J f process would cost a terrible price. "We venture to say that, however easily newspaper strategists. may*M disposing of the German vessels and Tightly, dwelling on th.o* advantages of the control of the seas England exercises, the British- would be-vastly happier if those drying "rats" were not there.—? <'Evening,.Post'? (New York). Antwerp hands even temporarily is a matter of grave eoneern to England, whose safety would be still more seriously jeopardised if the seaports of the Netherlands also fell under the control o^.her naval; rival. How Germany will behave in the immediate future towards Holland is but it may be conjectured that Berlin statesmen will be awake to the advantages of ' letting the country continue a formal neutrality, in or del-that Rotterdam and its other ports, as well as Antwerp, which, is approached by Dutch waters, may serve as gateways through which foodstuffs can be poured into Germany. —"Australasian;" GERMAN CIVILISATION ON TRIAL. German civilisation, in its broadest sense, is now being tried as it was never tried before. Who will be the successors, one asks, of the great men that made German culture the admiration of the | world? Goethe, interested in all nature I a ud all mankind and incapable, as he said, of hating any nation; Kant, whoon his deathbed whispered: *f I have not yet lost my feeling.for humanity"—are . they Germany's greatest glory, or is it. the Bismarcks and Moltkes?—' 1 ' Evening Post" (New York).' turkey and .the war. The net effect of a Turkish declaration of war would: be a great increase of carnage without any , change in. its results, except that, when peace came to be made, Turkey would be among the ' losers, with a loser's bill to pay, instead of an -onlooker enjoying the deserved ' goodwill of the winners, Turkey is so „ drenched with cooked accounts of the progress of the war by the official Press Bureau at Berlin that.expectation of a German victory is common at Constantinople. . That is perhaps the chief danger. It would-be J a curious tragedy if, after all the vicissitudes of its long, wonderful history, the Ottoman Empire in Europe were to die of false news;—r Manchester Guardian..7