THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 166, 19 August 1914, Page 4

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP. If you really want to win you must hate feeing beaten. Good manners and good sportsmanship prescribe an honest admiration of .the opponent's skill and courage. They do not demand even a pretended satisfaction in defeat. Hurrah for the best crews by all means. But it Leauder means anything to English rowing, the Grand must not be jeopardised again because we varmot take the trouble to put a first-class and thoroughly trained crew on the water.—"Express." - SUFFRAGIST RANK AND FILE. But what of the rank and file who had found the sinews of war for the Pankhursts? Here was a grave difference of opinion between their leaders with regard to the means to be employed to gain their end, yet these women were never consulted. The unfortunate Suffragettes Avere voteless indeed, and while crying aloud for Parliamentary suffrage they-were A\ithout"a voice in the management of their own organisation.—"E\ ren- ! ing News." (London). I AUSTRALIA'S NATIONAL VALUE. | Our army i* in an unfinished stage, i but already it is capable of furnishing ! stout defence at home, with men to i spare for Imperial sen-ice in case of [ need. We are in embryo as a nation. ! but ayc are 'beginning to feel national ; A-alue; and the more calmly Ave can think i in an emergency like that Avhich confronts the whole world to-day, the more Ave shall count in the issues that may be decided on land and sea within the next few weeks. —'' Sun'' (Sydney). i A CHANNEL TUNNEL. i The proposal to build the Channel j Tunnel is particularly interesting;, for j the fact that it should be put forward i in sjnte of all the military objections 1 is the clearest of proofs that, so far as Lvecurity of supplies 'goes, the island ! PoAver is at a great disadvantage as I compared with a Continental Power. What a commentary on our pride in the Navy that, in order to 'preserve to it a weapon that Avill hurt us far.-more than it will hurt the enemy, ■ we should actually propose as a final security that we should cease to be an island! —"ManChester Guardian."