WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

Observer, Volume XXXV, Issue 44, 10 July 1915, Page 3

WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

PASSIONATE love of country and their hard training make of the Italians a terrible foe to encounter. They will conquer their common enemy as they conquered the petty kings, and the internal enemies l who kept them apart so long. Steadfast as the-rocks, fanatic lover of liberty, passionate patriot, united as one flesh, the most heavily-taxed people of Europe go forward to Vienna, to revenge and to reward.—Sydney "Bulletin."

"We do not realise that as a people we must during this great crisis concentrate our energies om tlie war. In this the Germans are our superiors. With them war is a passion and every grade of their national 1 life is magnificently organised to work to a common, and, they have determined, victorious end. — Dannevirke "News."

Since Englishmen chopped off Charles' head, and desecrated Cromwell's grave, they've never had a pure-bred Britisher to reign over them.—Sydney "Truth."

The Pan-Germanic design would have made Germany master of Europe from the Channel to the Adriatic, and from Marseilles' to Poland:. She would have aesimiliated Belgium and Holland, and thus acquired a maritime status, such as no power had ever before possessed. She would, in due course, have forced the minor powers into subjection and become the dictator of Europe.—Masterton "Age."

In offering our congratulations to the Hon. J. A. Millar, we tendter them generously as a tribute to a personality we have esteemed and admired l , but nevertheless we offer our tribute in the spirit that possesses us when we lay a wreath on the bier of a loved and departed friend. —Wellington. "Times."

The trouble at New Plymouth appears to be that great expense has been gone to in erecting an enormous refinery to deal with a flow of oil that has never materialised. —New Plymouth "News."

The party truce will be most severely tested when the methods of the new taxation are under review. Ability to pay should clearly be the guiding principle, and, that being so, land, income, and luxuries, inchiding liquor, are the most obvious sources. —Wellington "Post." * * *

We have heard far too much of "business as usual j-". and seen too much of "pleasure ..as usual," and the worker has been allowed to live for months in a fool's paradise. He has found times good and wages ample, and he has not been convinced that sacrifice was necessary. —London "Express."

* * * When land matters are in question, no one can be more practical than Mr Massey.—Wellington "Free Lance."

The Prime Minister seems'determined tolean on the slender reed as embodied in Mr Tau Henare.—New Plymouth "News."

In the present abnormal circumstances every day wasted in idle talk, which the country does not desire to hear anything about, will mean the wasteful expenditure of money that would be better employed in relieving the dependents of incapacitated or fallen sodiers, or in raising and equipping more recruits. —Dunedin "Star."

Nothing would delight Australians more than news that our gallant men had been succoured and reinforced in Gallipoli by a large Italian army.. It would be welcome news, and, let us confess, would be tidings of intervention by Bulgaria on the deststed Turks' northern frontier.— Melbourne "Punch."

A neutrality '.vhich involves silence on great mortal issues is sometimes 1 hardly distinguishable from cowardice. It bears a close resemblance to the neutrality of Pontius Pilate when he allowed a great wrong to be done rather than create a troublesome situation for himself. —Wellington ' 'Dominion.''

The people have been invited persistently by the "Reform" party to regard Sir Joseph Ward) as a financial plunger, a political trickster, and a dishonest administrator. If he is any one of these things, he has no right to a seat in any moral and honourable Ministry. — Wellington "Times."

The news that fills our daily files, From special corespondents.—miles Behind the front—perchance beguiles The simple, but the sceptic riles.— London "Punch." * * *

That weird and elusive individual, the man in the street, opening his morning newspaper and finding therein no record of a Titanic battle by land or sea, tosses it aside with an impatient gesture and a disappointed' "nothing to-dlay, dull as ditchwater.'' —Greymouth ' 'Argus.'' * * *

The services of the Navy and Army of Great Britain, without which the Dominions would be at the absolute mercy of Germany, represent something a good deal more solid than verbal ton "Post."

Rightly or wrongly—rightly we very much fear—the public nave believed for some time past that the medical arrangements at" the camp have been sadly bungled, and that far more doctors and nurses are needed at Trentham than have been provided. — Wellington "Free Lance."

The sooner the session is ended, and the combined intelligence of our statesmen is devoted to the urgent questions of defence, finance, and cost of living, the better will people be pleased.—Masterton "Age." * * *

If, however, coalition is regarded as impractible and does not come about, it may be taken for granted that the Liberal and Labour parties will still actively assist the Government in every way as regards their war measures. —Christchurch "Spectator."

The "tipping" system was degrading to conscientious men earning a living on the sea, and more often than not a source of annoyance to many -a traveller. —Christchurch. "Sun."