WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

Observer, Volume XXXV, Issue 50, 21 August 1915, Page 3

WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

A KEENER partisan than any of 'his colleagues in the Minijstry, Mr Russell should acquire from this interesting experiment in political co-operation a balance and a restraint which would greatly increase hie future usefulness.—Wellington "Post."

We want arms made im the country as well as ammunition. No discussions are needed l of the principle that we must find for ourselves in the matter. The time has come for. declaring nervous '" appeals to London for guidance as absurd. We have to begin by deciding that we must make our own small arms to start with, together with all accoutrements and appurtenances.—Wellington "Times. ■

The New Zealand Land Values League has a bee in its bonnet.— Masterton "Age." * * *

What we are out to do is to kill the Germans, and so long as German casualties continue to number 10,000 a day, we are .doing our work and rendering inevitable our ultimate victory.—Opotiki "Guardian."

Those terrible casualty rolls! They run into millions. And the end is not yet . Many" thousands more— "friend and foe in one red burial blent"—have yet to pay the price .in order that the world may retain its freedom. Dear Christ, who reign'st above the flood V Of human tears and human, blood, A weary road these men have trod: Oh, house them in the home of God. The lines were written on ,the ensanguined fields of Ypres, written by one who knows wherefor he fights, knows the cost and is ready to pay it.—Dunedin "Star."

There is. nothing in the situation to prevent the German armies from striking at Moscow, and the chance of destroying the Russian armies on the roadi is by no means remote. — Wellington "Times."

Mr Allen's retention of the portfolio of Defence may be taken exception to in certain quarters, but this is not the time to drag up past faults, either of omission or commission, and, as we have said elsewhere, it should not be forgotten that to Mr Allen is due the main credit for having first put forward and earnestly championed the project of organising an Expeditionary Force.— Wellington "Free Lance."

But whether the war collapses tomorrow or rages on for years, the getting of the money to fulfil her proper obligations is going to be a tough proposition for Maoriland, with her heavy burden of unproductive debt and her dreadful habit of leaning heavily on Cohen; andl when the guns are put away, and the loan peters out, and the Hebrew sits whining on the doorstep for his peautiful ducats, and an impoverished world sets out to clean up the dreadful mess, the Dominion will have to toil harder than ever it did before and! live more soberly.—Sydney "Bulletin."

With Germany bankrupt in honour, faith and morals, peace cannot come to the world except by the sword and in the utter subjection of the Hunnish world-disturbers. — Stratford "Post.'-'- <