THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 251, 26 November 1914, Page 6

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

LEARNING THE LESSON. * Many of the high hopes with which* some ingenuous idealists regard the war now going on in Europe - are probably doomed to disappointment; but it is mot extravagant to hope, that one at least of them may be realised., Slowly, but surely, Germany .herself is learning by, terrible experience the tfeiMtsiof a blunt defiance of- civilised public opinion; we do not fancy that the end of the war will offer any inducement to. any other nation ■to ■ imitate fyer insolent defiance of it or the no less impudent contempt with which she presumes, to defend her conduct. when challenged.—'' Daily News." ' GERMANY'S AIM. ''' '

Imperial Germany, it lias long . been seen, aimed at the hegemony of the Continent, and, slowly the realisation has been forced upon Britain, that her ambitions did not stop there. Bisinarckian subtlety would at least have refrained from openly challenging England until the rest of Europe had been subjugated. The Pan-Germanism fostered by the Kaiser and the professors has scorned to coticeal the full aims of " iceltpolitik." In its impatience it has alarmed the \sorld. into resistance, and will learn that raw haste is half-sister to delay—and probably" closer kin to disaster.-: "Australasian." KEEPING TB.E GERMANS WARM.

The German Press told'their, readers that Mr Churchill is to resign and Sir John Jellicoe is to be, (jourt-martialled. They invented an English newspaper to, make it say that "We have lost our courage, which means that we have lost all. ':' They put into the columns of another English journal these dark words, "Only the most brilliant achievement of our Fleet can cancel the crushing impression, but we have not the confidence to believe in such a feat." With such fuel is the confidence of the German * burger kept warm. —"Express."

FACING THE OUTLOOK. We' can face the outlook ~ with far greater equanimity than Germany, and the longer the war lasts the more clearly will our superiority of resources be demonstrated. Our credit, our margin cf wealth, our trade, pur financial policy during the past 10 years have been, and are, much sounder than hers. At the same time her expenditure is considerably heavier and her ability to meet inconsiderably less. We hold the winning cards, but we must play them with telligence. —"Daily Mail."