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Observer, Volume XXXV, Issue 20, 23 January 1915, Page 3

The Germans are fond of referring to. our "hireling army." The gibe is foolish, and need not disturb our equanimity. It is the duty of the soldier, as it is the duty of every other man, to care for his family, and. it is the duty of the Government to provide, that the. great burden of this war for existence should be borne not by a class,..but by the whole community. We ''cannot all fight, but those who cannot fight can pay .—London "Express." Those who are liesitating to enlist for this reason may. be reassured. There is, not the faintest prospect of a swift end of the conflict. And if the war is to be protracted for three years, enormous forces will be required. The nation must be prepared to place more than a million men in the field, and to maintain ite armies at that figure by making good the constant wastage of the battlefield.—London "Daily Mail." • ■ It is the inbred faith of the Britisher that his Empire is unbeatable, and in spite of the raids made by the German cruisers on a few undefended towns, and the threats of a Zeppelin invasion, life goes on in England much as before the war commenced, and but for the presence in the streets of the khaki uniforms and the.'newspaper posters, one would hardly know that the armed' forces of Europe are engaged in a life and death struggle, and that the summit of the ambition of the Kaiser is to lead an army in triumph through London. — Greymouth "Argus."