WAR TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 223, 18 September 1915, Page 21

WAR TALK.

This war had given arguments in favour of conscription that were absolutely unanswerable. To-day we relied on coiisciipfionist France. They could not go into any alliance again which might, l.ring war, and tell their Al!ic9 to »_it six months before their troops could support them in the trenches. They could not do it, and their Allies I would not allow them to do so. They had to open their eyes to the fact that militarism had its theorists and its defenders in this country, and that those people would be more enthusiastic when I the war was over. —J, Ranisav Mac- . I Donald. M.P. id i We. the l'nited States, should streng- , then the wavering and reassure the _ , doubting hy proclaiming to the world j_ i our absolutely unreserved belief in the I right and justice of the cause of the I Allies, and our determination to see to it I that, should the worst come to them. thej will have cur material support to the last dollar, the last bushel of corn. and the last drop of blood.—Dr. J. Wil- ! 'nam White, a distinguished trustee of I the I'niversity oi Pennsylvania. I Professor liravell. in the "I.okaljjn Anzeiger.'' apparently gravelled for •* arguments as to why v'ermnny must I win, tells us thai "the nation which, in our own time, produced a Richard Wagner ha* the lughe-i Kultur." This is priceless, in view of the fact i.hat Hichaul W.ignc r was exiled from <ler many a* a revolutionary in IS4S, and | only re entered it as the protege of the _ mad King of Havaria! Wagner died ill i l-vvi. since when many great composers i have I,era given :,, the world, but not by llermany. Decadent France, barbaric ! Russia, perfidious Kngland. and neutral I Italy have made the music of the modern I tvo'hl: Oriti.inv mostly its cacophony.— i The Bystander." I What Cermnny say*. i s „,-,( highly important. I; s wli.it li.-rmany .locs'that i- imp t.int. Pie President, has made it plain that the I'lnted States will not i |:..lcnt.' a polio, of maritime lynch law j'li i -;.,'. t :n tin* livrvi and property of _ i lier i-:ti_>-n«. . . The l'nited States - w.!l not siiSnnt t;> lui.e the li\,*s and pro;.r:v , f her citizens snuffed out in the -|do_peTate attempt on the part of Germain ! i overcome, at the expense ~f | ii.-u-iral-. the superi iriti of British _*_ , ! power, winch h .Ids her in a grip 0 f sieel.

-N w ~,r * . "World." 1 in,..us stories cine out of the :r,-::,ii.-s in France, an,l. as no one will e\,-i know the whole truth concerning i In* war. it is well tn lake then, ns they , .inc. and make the most of them tin,' ■". >rv i* .ibiui a lieljfian, lonp fl resident ..i the I njted Stales. who. bearing thai lus native village, including tlic house whole he was lioru, had been ,li.slrovp.l, ciimc to France and enlisted in the fureigm legion. lie l„athed the Hermans, or thought he did He re fuse,l io join in the fraternal greetings licSwi-eti ihe lines ni t!ie time of the Christm-s iru.e. and when a festive l.erinan wandered up to the lines, unmolested, Se jumped at him. eager to Inne the fun of killing him with his naked hands. There was a terrific fist fight, and somehow, in the midst of it. the two learned, first to respect each i other, anl then to like each mher. j When it was over tbev-tshook: hands, vowing eiemal fncnd__iip»-_Di_ the Ger man drified back unharmed into his own lines This story is not plausi.ile. and probably didn't happen as related, but iin .1 way i; is true. If a soldier could know- hi* enemy as well as he knows : any .mc nf a hundred men in his own regiment he could not harm him. Soldiers kill as impersonally as an auto,„.,;,lie runs over a pedestrian, and for the same reason, that they are machine*. They do not hate each n!her. The diplo-iv..i-s and stay-at-homes do the hating.— S.m Francis,-', "Bulletin."