TALK ABOUT THE WAR.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 145, 19 June 1915, Page 18

TALK ABOUT THE WAR.

I If anyone says 1 inn opposed to bantams he is a liar. —l.oril kitchener. ! Tliere is not. -ami never has been, a specllle military rviny In normally.—lieu. ] ..rtdiard'Hie existence or Prussian militarism l_ not i'»u___!_l with civilisation.—Lord : liosc-_ri-. .lust at present oven the joung wife's bread s!„,ws a teii__nicy to rise— "t'lilcago llcr.i'.l." We haven't slarhitl yci. 1 leaven help them when wo rUi.—Sergeant Michael Hl.ea:y. \ .0. Although vodka bus been taken from ihe I ~-sacks, there 5,.,. Ms |,i be a bit of punch lelt.- ■■Washiiiolon Post." I Pan's is reported lo be too serious for it lie one-step. The goiise-slcp didn't got ■a foothold cither—"Philadelphia North i American. - ' I At the present time we entirely fail to j realise how much we should mi-s Iter.main if licrmanv were gone— Profiwor (.'. 11. -lout. j Theatrical folk will be interested to hear that in the Eastern Theatre of War I 111. l'l' h.ls been fin 1u I - lighting for the I You caiin.it make an omelette without eggs. 1.,. i.l Klic.ieuer .void.l not maki I wii'.i.,ut lirst raising the hens to lay I ( h list i.i n mission vi,'- are afraid novvaj da.vr. I > teach tiie heat lien to read f->r fear ji.tie ol t fit-ill might pick up a war extra. ("Boston Transcript." "The Art of Being \live" is the title of Klla Wliccb-r Wil.ox's latest book. It ought to sell weil ;n the trenches.----"l lev dan 1 Plain-Dealer." ' As a people we cannot lie frightened or j depressed into panic by bad news; we I.an v.-rv easily be made t otll'nbnt by good news.— 1.0r.l .- Ibortic.

You ran only _et the rxcit. ruenl of the war hy -t.iyi'n.- ,11 1.,.11.10n. To vi.-i liondqiurtrrs i- like _ inj; on a re.-t-cuie. _Mr L. Asluuead Bartlctt. Far he 1! from 11? to doubt the C-r----nan Ohuuel'oi's statement tint hi' .eople love iho [1,-|_i.i -- hut v.c *Uii.l.l«t to think of their fate .-h .11 i th,' Te iton■ver ..I uvid at them.—"Xashvillo Southern L-.m:!>. rin.in " Tlie heavy losses which the Germans admit in French C.'h impijrne prepare hem for whai will happen when we larry the war into the Lager Ueei country. —Lou lon "St 11.'' "Hod i- only with the armies of lie lievers." deilared the Kaiser in nee o; hi.- latest sp. ei'hcs. And a- tin- i.cruiin-s.-eiu ,-apihl,' of l.cli. v on. anything tli.u :s t'dl th"in hv their newspaper-, it levident that we are badly han li'ipped. - "I'un.-li." Tbe >potil.ineity with which ihe Hi. jtsii people have r'.v. n in half 11 year a jniuple of million men is n winder which [as never li, relolore .K'ciirrnl in mv .•oiinn-y , ; ili.< w,.i! i. no ! 11 1- ililli.-'ilt :,i believe liv! ll vviil happen .;:.iin in lii-lory,-- "Tilbuea." Tiie statement that "-.'■'O-.-i'ln imtiu.rants will .'.'me 1 1 :ti Kurope in two years after the v.ar" i< n.i--iirn_ Many people had liepm to feir there '.vniil. not he lli.it many pcip'e !•*!' in l'iiioj>e when the war cnl.*.— "B>'?l>n ; I'raveUcr."

Me-.-rs. Tlagenbec'.:, of .lamburc. arc ending Mi)or Me'iri-g, the Herman ri.nma-n.-it at \'a!."?ciennc«, 1,11 ele pliant. So we may expect sinrtly t" 1t.i1.l by wireless that a lar.e Inlian body lias gone over to the German-.--•Punch." Germany .3. been too courteous to ward the rest of the world—too anxious to please But our eves have been opened to our folly. We have learned hy bitter expedience that ir does mt pay :o be too cour.eous. too e:i_cr to please, •flans Heinz Ewers. German author and noc„

In IP7O the Germans besieged Paris vnd starved it into surrender. In 1!U." the Allies are bcsie_i-i_ Germany and

-•arv'i!i_ it into sur'-.m.ler. The sieuc of Paris was a nVi.ite .omparcd vvi:h

•he -ie_e of tbe Herman Empire. Our Gummidires oui'ht to give up tlieir Gumniidling. Before long they will be lone lorn creatures without any excuse for a 'roan or any pretext for a tear. —Mr .1.15. Doiipln*'.

This kn'.Uinjr will have lo be regulated in some vv.iv. A gentleman who vvrilps bitterly to Ihe New York '■Sun" says that there is a domestic stringency throughout America, and he seems lo suggest that liii-binds nnd sons are Eoing vvi'.hout adequate food beeauso their wives and mothers are too busy knitting 10 provide it for them.—San Francisco "Argonaut.''

The Germans had developed all material res..iiiccs to the uttermost, but had omitted the soul, an.l that would be their ruin. The Prussian Cod appeared to be nu>:e like vvliat we should cail a devil. The Christian doctrine of the weak overcoming the strong was anathema tn the Herman mind of today. It wa B essentially a revolt a trains t ChVi.tiariity tli.it we were witness ing. If German ideals got llic upper lian.l, the world would jto down, and Christ would be vani'uialicJ— Sir Oliver Lodge.

Wo cannot but regard t.lie position taken liy ihe -.njf'i-li (lovernment in its war again... Turkey not lo include, the l.nly places in tlie Turkish Kmpire as hi.hi.v si.nilieant. It. assures, -at leas; fur illi' future, the pnitei't'on of all holy |i!n-'Cd in each country from violation, eeriieil. We wish lli.n licrinany would join. Then, in ea-e ue are invader! by ll Ili.-i-s of I'iie Mimlanl Oil Company an.l H.e m i-k Kseiunfi" "ill eomc to no liiirm.—"l.it. ," N.vv York.

lieforo the war in Kurope started oxperl.- liirur,-il i:i:it ali.nii one-third of llie population "I I lie earth Iru.l 1 >ci-ii converted 1.. ( hn-iKiii ty. That result, re.|iiirin_ ii'miu: Ivvcii." centuries, vvas looked ii|".n a- sabi <: ,'lory. an.l. hail Ihe same .-peel been ma) nI a ineil. the .■utile world vvouhl have been Christian in nhnilt li.flllll. A 11. fin! now we

iianlly know vvli.ii L.i o-pe.t. There i-vfi-y lit IK- turning of tiie oilier ohook -ono: on in -lirope j.i-: now, and this* fact, together Willi .■. ;.,,;- frr.,,l various iimirlcrs of empty caiirohos, i„ very disturbing t'i our riileiil ii luii-. Salvation nny l.c free, but i: .- eeitainly not aJwavg in a burrv. —''Life," Now York.