THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 194, 21 September 1914, Page 4

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

EMPLOYMENT DURING THE WAR. ' If the Government works can keep going until the '/ money market settles, there is now no visible cause to appro-, hend any serious dearth of private employment. And as soon as the war is over a .trade boom may be anticipated here by /eastm of the enormous demand that must set in to pull up the arrears of production and repair the wastage. As a supplier of .raw materials Australia must largely benefit by this revival. Owners of stock in industrial concerns would do, therefore, well to sit tight, and not jettison their interests for speculators to pick up. Nor is there any necessity for people to unduly restrict their use of the. ordinary comforts of life, which, if there was a danger of wholesale employment, would be the way to accentuate it.— 4 * Daily Telegraph. " TEUTON OR SLAV? "Why should the Slav be so much dearer to us than the Teuton that we should tax "the necessaries of the poor to famine prices and the income of the rich to extinction? Jb'or this is what our participation in a great European! war must mean to England. Have the i people of England so far lost all spirit j that they will humbly bow to this gro- j tesque conception of our national policy, aitd wait till the guillotine falls and takes off their submissive heads?— "Manchester Guardian." GERMANY'S SEA TRADE. But the sealing of the Adriatic ports would destroy the Austrian oversea trade; and the wonderful German mercantile fleet has for the time being been as completely wiped out as if by an alldestroying hurricane. How many decades will it take to rehabilitate it? No one can-even guess now; but the stockj holders of the North German Lloyd and j Hamburg-American Companies have already begun their sacrifices for their country's ruler. —"Evening Post" (Mew York). BRITAIN'S ARMY AND NAVY. The British Navy, as has recently been demonstrated with splendid and impressive, pageantry, is ready and evidently able to play its part in any emergency. The Army, the victim of doctrinaire lawyers and overworked politicians, is, on the other hand, notoriously and deplorable insufficient, and we should face war and the threat of war with the uncomfortable knowledge that all our eggs were in one basket, and that Ave had no insurance against raid or accident. We are confident that now, as heretofore, the nation would be united and determined. —"Express."