Notes and Comments.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2516, 10 December 1914, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

The Calm After the Storm

i( A correspondent wants to know when this windy weather is going to change?" If that is intended as a conundrum, we would reply: "When tho elections are over." Notice it? End of the talking season!

A Tip and a Trip

Foots used to be regarded as prophets, and Kipling writes to an American friend, "You are next- ou the firing-line."—meaning, in his optimism, that U.S.A. would bo involved in tho great war. Apropos of this, our confrere, Colonel Mann, proprie-tor-editor of New York Town Topics, says.- "The Kaiser has nothing to lose and much to gain by declaring war against the United States. W« have no armr nor navy to gn-© the Allier, a»7 and our o?mni&rce cfr&r;j rich pnz.-«-, to German cruisers. Face the facts and realise that tinwar talk against Canada is only preliminary to the denunciation oi- tbe

United States." Our friend Mann has been a strong pro-British force in American journalism during these troublous times. Thank you. Colonel.

Vat About the Vaterland Now?

in our Notes and Comments in yesterday's bTAit we had a reference to tno boost of German's nierea-mue leviathans by an American—Elbert Hubbard. Here is an interesting sequel, latien trom a London paper:

••'ihe world's largest imer, the Valeriana, owned by tne Hainburg-Amen-qan Company, which has remained a refugee steamer iv issw York harbour since the outbreak of the war, has had an attachment placed on her by tho United States Court at the instance ot Messrs \\ anug and Uillow, the London iirni. The rurniture ana decorations of the imer were supplied by Waring and Giilow, and these were titted at jdamburg by English workmen. The balance ot the company's account had not been paid when war was declared, and there being reports tnat tne Germany company was trying to sell the liner t Messrs Waring and Giilow took the action stated. Until the debt and costs aro paid, therefore, she cannot quit port even if disposed of to a neutral State or company. The Vaterland cost £1,----725,000 to build and made her maiden voyage to New York last May.' Surely, pride wont before a fall in the case of the Vaterland 1 '