THE WORLDS PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 107, 11 June 1914, Page 6

THE WORLDS PRESS.

AMEBICA "UP AGAINST IT."

President Wilson temporised and selected Genera! Villa-as a barbaric and unofficial instrument of his*spite. The result has not been happy. He has now seen an intolerable insult to his eouhtry 'a. flag. He =may face aw4r .*. of conquest'more tekpdiisive in trouble, blood, and treasure thanthe Boer war was for this country; He has alreadybeen, compelled to mobilise the totally inadequate force on which he can lay immediate- hands, and to send the fleets steaming towards the coasts, of Mexusb. America's credit has been; already shaken a little. It may be shaken much before the affair is finished. President Wilson is now' up agaatait it,'' and he is reaping ithe. conße r quea««i of Daily '.■<■'. JAPANESE AEMY y, HAW.

Hitherto the Japanese ArinyaJid the Japanese Navy have each been controlled by a clan, and these two clansy in virtue of .'their control oyer the armed forces, have alternated in appointing the Cabinet. The Japanese Parliament is slowly breaking the yoke of tl>e clans Tjecifuse" there happens "to be' two of them, each master of one military am and both" bitter rrvals; • In England we have, one class controlling- both Army and Navy, so..that. we cannot count on the rivalry between these "two forces to save the civil power. By so mucn is the need more urgent for the democratising of the Army and Navy. ■—'•' Evening News''. (London): • FANACEAS for criminai. HABITS. "»

It is, of course, very easy to fall into the error .of supposing that .confinement and seclusion from society are panaceas for criminal habits, and this fallacy is likely to prove attractive to prison experts, who forget too readily that the criminal, after being shut out Of society will have to live in society. For this reason any movement for extending the power of the State to confine needs to be watched. There is no reason, however to suppose that the development of the Borstal system proposed in this Bill will not make for good.—"Express." THE ENTENTE CORDIALE.

The Entente has thus for all practical purposes the force and validity of an alliance, nor is it easy to see how any paper bond or compact could add to its strength, which lies in the perfect harmony and good will now happily existing between the two great While these conditions are maintained an( j long may they continue —the Entente meets every need.—"Daily Mail." ' 'MOISTENING BONERS."

The object of th<£,enquiry was to find out where the hotels spared-by ; the local option vote were to be/located, 80 that this question was vitally pertinent. If a miner or blast furnaceworker requires five pints of beer to make one drink, obviously the necessary hotel accommodation in mining districta would have to be estimated on a more liberal scale than in places where the first pint'is a drink." But if the five pints are required to t "moisten' »■ him, as,declared.in the Gottrt,;then; the question is, "What does moistening a miner ineanl—"Daily Telegriiph. ,,: - -"'