THE WAR CLOUD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9607, 5 September 1911, Page 5

THE WAR CLOUD.

MORE HOPEFUL SPIRIT IN BERLIN. (By Electmo Telegraph—Copyright.) {Pull PliKtlH AUBOOIATION.) LONDON, Sept. 4. Correspondents agree that a more hopeful spirit prevails in Berlin regarding tho Morocco negotiations, tho chief points presenting difficulties relate to the safeguarding of German industry in Morocco. Tho Bishop of Winchester, preaching to members of tho British Association at Portsoa, asked the people to pray that tho peace of Europo miglit be preserved at this very critical time. '

A PEACE DEMONSTRATION. BERLIN, Sept, 4. A crowd of 100,000 people, including women and children, obeyed the summons of the Social Democratic leaders to de- ' monstrate at Treptow Park against the : warlike agitation over Morocco, and for ■ peaco between tho peoples. j A thousand platforms were utilised, 'lie being Reichstag Deputies l or candidates. The utmost order prevailI- 4 . GERMAN PRESS COMMENTS, BERLIN, Sept. 4. ' Tho Kiel newspapers arc full of articles, mostly of tho gravest tone, dwelling on tho danger, which, after forty-ono years, again confronts Germany on Sedan Day. Tho Deutscher Zoitung asks whether in I view of the gravity of the outlook, all j has been dono to ensure that high posts in the army are adequately filled. It points | out that General Sir J. D. French is in-1 specting the French Frontier defences, and relations with Britain aro severely strained. It also deprecates concentrating tho fleet in the Baltic for reviews and manoeuvres, leaving not a single battle- ( ship in the North Sea.

ACTIVITY IN BELGIUM. .' BRUSSELS, Sept. 4;' There is much activity in military circles. The defences of the Mouse- have been strengthened, whilst the .forts iat Liego and Namur have been supplied with ammunition and food as in wartime. LONDON, Sept. 4,

The Daily Telegraph's correspondent at Tangier reports that 3000 French soldiers from Casablanca havo been ordered to occupy Marrakesh. WHAT THE WORKER THINKS. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Sept. 5. At the Waterside Workers' Conference Mr G. Terry (Wellington), moved: "That this conference approves of tho following: ( 'Should England declare war on any other ( nation we, as workers, unite with tho workers of other countries in declaring | peace.'" Mr Boardman (Auckland) seconded. Mr Reed (Lyttleton) said it would bo a good thing if workers of rival countries could unite and stop horriblo war. If tho money spent under tho present New, Zealand Defcnco Act had been spent under tho volunteer system it would havo formed tho nuclous'of a very efficient SGTVIC6. I Mr E. Canham (Auckland) referring j to the compulsory military training scheme; contended that tho system was too : harsh, and suggested that the motion bo j amended ae follows, "That in event of any two nations of the world declaring war on one another, this conference pledges itself along with other workers of tho world to declaro for peace,". The amendment was accepted by the mover, and tho motion as amended was carried,

MINISTERS AND PEACE. AUCKLAND, Sept. 5. Tho Auckland Ministers' Association passed a resolution expressing wholehearted sympathy in every effort to further tho cau?o of'peace in tho world, but did not feel called upon to express any view on the New Zealand Defence Act, this not being primarily a question of peace or war. Each member of the association, concludes the _ resolution, is freo to express his own views,