THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 267, 15 December 1914, Page 6

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

FIGHTING SUBMARINES. No method of blockade can prevent the exit of submarines from a hostile' port, and no means has yet been' devised by which submarine can fight submarine. Thus we have an extraordinary, state of affairs such as has never before existed in naval war> in which < the weaker navy is able to send one par-' ticular type of vessel to sea and to threaten every surface ship within a certain limited radius. The power of the German submarines, is, ; however, confined within . narrow bounds. — "Daily Mail." ■.'!....-■ " BEARING THE BRUNT. We know what service they (General French's . army) are rendering-both to. Great Britain and to European freedom. It will be an infamy if we forget them when the battle is over and the victory is won. -They have bjrne and are bearing, with dauntless courage and amazing humour, the brunt of such awful.fighting as the world has never seen before. The country must see to it that the best possible shall be done for them; if if hey become permanently maimed in its service.—"Express."" 1 MAXIMILIAN HARDEN.

By people who have; read ,a .. .good deal of his writings, Herr Maximilian Harden has always been regarded as a neurotic egotist who is so.eaten Up with vanity that he must always .'keep himself before the. public at any cost.. This estimate seems to be a correct judging by the absurd and bombastic tone of his latest .utterance; ; x/'Afe a, socialist- open and declared, aai!d as a self-styled opponent to ,the ~Junker party, some foolish people had hopes he, and not the Junkers, really represented German opinion.; We know betiier now; Added to which comes the information from Herr Harden himself ..that.,lie is just as rabid against England as any backwoods Junker. —'' Age. ' ' COMBATANTS' DEPENDENTS. We have never concealed o\ir own opinion that it was utterly wrong in the first place to associate the-task of maintaining combatants ' dependents with that of fighting distress, among the civil population. The two are in no sense on the same footing, and the Government undoubtedly ought not to have left the former to any; voluntary agency. , It was their duty to undertake that the soldier's or '■-sailor's family should not be reduced to indigence as a result of its head's absence on' foreign service.— r • Daily News." * •.■■,[■■• --mj THE HANDY MAN. . It has always been the characteristic of the handyman that he can fit himself into any and every set of cireum* stances, and that his resource is sufficient to meet any eventuality. The sailors of our fleet in the North Sea are the heirs of the Nelson tradition, ', We can not only rely on their courage and persistence,; we can also be assured of their technical efficiency and of their ability to,meet and to overcome eyery possible attempt the enemy may niiake against the integrity of our. island shores. —"Manchester Guardiain. I '''*!