Notes and Comments.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2858, 1 February 1916, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

The Decision of Porsia. If it proves true, sis hinted, thiil Persia has decided to cast in her lot with the Allies, it will bo a diplomatic and moral blow to Germany and Turkey, lint it will niouti greater things than thai. It will mean that ;lie Russian progress through Persia towards Mesopotamia in so solid that Persia cannot do anything el*o but declare hor.solf on the side of the winners. And with the Russian roller (.',>- inir steadily onward, the capture, o> Bagdad is now only a question of time. We are told to-day I hat 'w Russians have surrounded ICrzonmin, fclio capital of Armenia, soutJi of 'lie Caucasus, and that the Turkish authorities have quitted that particularly hot .spot in Asia Minor. VV.th Krwrouin and Hagdad in tho hi a-.ls of the Allies, tho nretigo of tho Kaiser and Co. in tho East will be utterly shattered -and Egypt will In; but, a forlorn hope, only another pipe-div mi for Iho Will-o'-tlie-Wisn of Europe, who had set his heart on tho conuuost of Paris, Calais, London, and India. The Human Sensitive Plant. Tho German is it. Ho does a whole host of tilings he shouldn't do, and ho retorts with tho dictum that ho makes his own rules for tho war game. But when Britons at Homo or overseas adopt some of the rules as revised by tho Kaiser and Co., Germany squeals liks a rat caught in a corner. Tho latest evidence of this is the German threats against Australia for so greatly daring as to prohibit German investments in Australian concerns. It is a pretty state of things whon a nation that has done her best to destroy us seeks to further impose, herself'upon our business concerns. The fact is, tho British Government has allowed Gorman money such a free hand in Britain that tho Germans think they aro to own the earth for all time, war or no war. It is a remarkable fact that, in face of many protects from the. politicians, the press, and tho public generally, the. British National Cabinet has hitherto actually held that there is no barm in allowing enemy'companies in Great Britain earning profits therein during the course of tho war! It was only under tho greatest pressure of protest that tin* Government brought a Bill before Parliament to deal with enemy companies registered as British concern*. Australia was the first to move in this direction, and Premier Hughes has stirred financial Germany to its depths by definitely declaring that German capital must pull out of Australian enterprises within three months. The Germans carry their hearts in I heir pockets very much as do the Americans—beii|Ji> those squeals when the pocket is pierced.