THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 173, 27 August 1914, Page 4

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

THE AET OF WAR. * The art of war, as it has been recently understood and evolved by military experts, looks like coming to a standstill. The hopes of the Allies in France are strong. They amount almost to a confident expectation that the Germans will be found unable to envelope th« defending army on the north. Thus the assault, on France is expected to fail. On the other hand, it would be a rosy imagination that could picture the Russians and French crushing back the Germain and Austrian defence and joinisg hands at Berlin^-"The most likely event is that the desperate struggle will leave ne&Ber side triumphant. —"Sun" (Sydney). GERMANY'S ISOLATION. The tactless selfishness of her diplomacy leaves Germany not . only without a disinterested friend, but detaches her own ally from her side. That is the position in Europe. Overseas, of course, the whole of the British Dominions are up in arms against the assailant ctf their mother-country, while America is unsympathetic, and Japan, the ally, though only in certain eventualities the active ally of England. If the challenge which Germany threw down to Great Britain, when bidding against her for the supremacy of the sea, had to result in war sooner or later, the crisis could not, therefore, have come at a more opportune moment for England.—'' Daily Telegraph.'' ME CHAMBERLAIN'S PERSONALITY. In politics there is no greater force than that of a strong and dominant personality, and that of Joseph Chamberlain was of a type which is seldom seen more than once in a generation. He made it felt first in his own city of Birmingham, of which, in both political and municipal affairs, he was for long the unquestioned ruler, and when he entered upon a larger field he showed his strength 110 less surely.—"Evening News" (London).