Notes and Comments.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2888, 7 March 1916, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

Britain for the British

It looks as if John Bull was waking up at long last to the needs of his own family. The London Evening News states that- the British Government is considering a Labour Importation Bill, to prevent aliens reolacing enlisted men in hairdressing and confectionery -shops, hotels Mid res tan - ants, electrical, printing, and toy trades. Theatrical agents who were on the eve of journeying to America to book "turns." received an official hint, and cancelled their trip. A section of the theatrical press is discif-s----ing 'the possibility of only British aitists being employed in British musichalls. America, has for many years had"" just's'licli X law oii its statute books as that con torn nla ted by Britain. making it difficult for an outsider lo get aii expert's position in F.S.A. But. after all. it is a cheap-labour proposition. For 20 years Germany mid a war-motive in flooding London i;i,<l other cities in-Britain with clerks-and waiters willing aud eager to work • t any price. There will never be sue;: oilers again, because the motive will be absent—and Germany will not ha .-<. the men to spiirc. . Jo'hn_ Bull has al ways been a freetrader in his Jai;o::i market and in his enterlaiimmiil " turns." Now is the great, opportunity for a genuine all-round po!ic\ "of Britain for the British and Briti.-'i "trade for fhe Britisher.

The Turn of. the Turk. Amid all tile contradictions th' H conic from Constantinople, one item is reiterated until conviction is forced upon us, and that i.s that Prince Vussuf, heir to the Turkish throne, wa.-. actually asassinatcd. The blame 's being distributed —in one statement >ye are told that it was the Kaiser -y,..i sanctioned the murder, another i as it that the Young Turks Party ordered the deed to be done. Certain it is that the Prince was in the way of both, for he wa.s anti-Cerinati -mo he was wholly undiplomatic in denouncing the Young Turks as enemies to their country. Now the eabjciiiau tells us that .the- correspondent at Cairo of the London Times has received reliable information from Constantinople wliich states that Envcr Pasha and Talaat Bey have lost popularity in the Turkish capital. Formerly, tho populace lined the streets when he turned out, regarding Envcr Pasha as the hero of Turkey. Since the fall of -ICrzerouni and the death of Prince Yussuf. however, he .drives at full speed and is not acknowledged by the crowd. Talaat Bey's life has been attempted. Tliree shots were fired at him, killing his secretary. Tho population is furious against the Young Turks leaders and the Gcr.inans. It is claimed by those who know both men well that Envcr Pasha is showy and shallow, and merely the tool of the dcen and subtle Talaat: Bey. The writing is on the wall against Turkey. No nation can possibly endure in a war that.is as a house so much divided—with Germans ' dominating the capital, with Young Turks intriguing, with Old Turks plotting the fall of the Committee of Union, with the .ponulaCe and the soldiery turning against, the three influences—and their ancient ene.iny, Russia, defeating the Turk in Asia Minor. It is a ease of .Kilkenny eats —and they should be left to fight it out amongst themselves.