THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 203, 1 October 1914, Page 6

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

GERMAN/PLEET TO GO. Suppose, now, it should strike Admiral I Von Tirpitz, or the Kaiser, perhapvthat it might be worth 'while."in "so. extreme a case to suffer even a very great loss in to do some damage to the enemy? /Suppose the : German war .authorities .were.willing to throw the German -Fleet -against- the- British, in the hope that,before it to'pieces . < it could account for some of the British, ships? And there would always be the one chance in a hundred of 'victory, or ipartial- vietory. If Germany-is'-beaten in this war,,she-is-going to..lose.her fleet in any case. May it not be worth her while to. .get, in this, way, some solid jrettirn for the loss? Certainly,'a bold I sortie f roni" KieH is only a- possibility; !but it is emphatically- possible.—-',' Daily Telegraph," TUNCTION OF THE PEESS. -In a struggle involving such world-' wi<leu'r.ippling, the -Press cannot escape ; suffering its. share. In London and Paris the -.newspaper, business is,' ter- - ribly hard hit/ and ..great incurred by the proprietors. We presume the same is true in Germany. The lesson should not be lost. Into' the heads, of newspaper men the truth should have' ~'. forced entrance, in a way "never to dislodged, that, the true self-interest, as well as the lrigh. mission, of' the. Press is to cultivate peace.— : " Evening Post" (New York).- '■■*'. ALLIES WILL DO THEIR DUTY. " ■ln the coming .great battle we must expect the \Germans to sacrifice men. by tens of thousands.in a desperate attempt to break the line of the Allies. We can only be / certain' that they will, meet with a vigorous resistance, and that the men who are guarding their homes from those who would humiliate and enslave them will do their duty as long as life remains.—"Evening News'* (London). •"• ' SPLENDOUR OF HERITAGE. Stripped of the trappings of super-, civilisation, man retains all the qualities. I that, make him only a little lower' than ;the angels, the qualities that have in- ! spired the world's songs and stories.,. I The centuries pass, but the man of - ! modern Europe is still just a man —a i wonderful and bewildering creature, [capable at .times of strange • littleness,, _' but happily capable, too, of wonderful [greatness. -August, 1914, has -made, us; | realise.the splendour of our heritage.— • i" Express." k ,__. . .-'. { =, JAPAN AND U.S.A. :■...■ \ u Perhaps she (U.S.A!) does not accept the assurance as to the intention of .lapan to hand Kiao-Chau back to China quite so. readily as Washington has done.' -As tjr'New Guinea and the rest of the German-possessions, Ave shall be surprised if, before the expiry of the ultimatum, the warships-" of this country have n,ot picked up these unconsidered trifles of the German Empire in readiness for that day, which we "hope is not very far distant, when the belligerents will discuss; the terms of peace.— ."Daily News.""OUR* CAUSE IS JUST." The hour has arrived when, •in the words of one of the noblest patriot*;,, '"we must make ourselves familiar with the thought of every kind of 'sacrifice and of death."' A prolonged anU ; bitter struggle is before us. But our cause is just; we are fighting for the smaller States of Europe as well as for the liberty of our own homes and to protect them against the lawless violence of that -single Power *vvh~ich in four. • days-has without cause'attacked in succession five separate. -peoples.—" Dai iy , ...