THOUGHTS ON THE WAR.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11508, 2 October 1915, Page 8

THOUGHTS ON THE WAR.

With the will to conquer, ffc arc certain of victory.—M. Poincare. The women of this country can help us through to victory.—Mr Lloyd George. Do not let donht creep into your mind . . . the essential condition ot victory is patience.—M. Paul Cambon. All the easy talk of peace is but froth upon the water Avhen such a storm as this is raging.—Mr Austen Chamberlain. Wo are neutral, but if the name of. Przemsyl is to he changed again, we cannot guarantee, to hold the printers. --"New York Times." i There are many of us who would pull a, trigger at the Germans if we had a trigger to pull. The War Loan^ gives everybody a trigger.--" London Star. It is time the deadly red-tape of official England should be unwound. There are other places also where I would unwind it with a knife !--I)r Hugh Black, in the "British Weekly." The true victory will not .lie so much in the tactical gains on the battlefield to-day, as in the quality of the men who have to carry on the work of the nation after the war is over. Gene; a I Sir Robert Baden-Powell. A Brussels printer has been lined £lO by the Germans for, having printed a prayer in which the phrase occurred: "Deliver us from our enemies." This is curious, as we understood that the. Germans were now the friends of the Belgians.—''Punch.'' In an egg-layin<r competition in N'ew i South Wales a White Leghorn established a world's record of 2HS eggs Can this patriotic fowl have heard of our urgent need for shells!'—-" Books ol To-day" and To-morrow.'' For us, high or low, to whatever profession wo belong, there must be no holidays till the great task is I'maliy accomplished.—Mr Walter Long. Tn the tenth month of the war we perceive that it is with its savants, onjgineers, artisans, and not with Ms soldiers, that Gcrnianv wages the most redoubtable war. Senator Humbert, in the " Nation." Have vou noticed that Or Honiburg, who savs Germanv bus proved that Britannia no longer rules the wares, asks us to get Great Britain's permission for him to go homo':' " Philadelphia North American." There is perhaps nothing in all the archives of time more surprising than the failure of Germanv to succeed a* nn Imperial Power. More than once she had Empire-great, unorganised Empire—within her grasp, and each time she let it go. klu* shattered the Western Empire ot Rome, but she failed to establish herself on the nuns. She could seize, but she could not hold ; the German people have never had the genius either for colonisation or tor Imperial policy- *"' Gilbert Parker. Some of the best shells used by the French in this war have been turned out by American bedstead-makers, hrnis having no connection with military affairs of an armv. The Germans have complained bitterly of the efficiency ot these particular American .du Ms. 'I nouwuids of engineering brae-, large and small, throughout Gn.at Mritain, can, if they are asked, make exactly what is wanted.—"Daily Mail." No one knows the Prussians better than Poultney Uigelow. He says that Prussia produces no leaders in any department of civilisation; that- all her leaders are in the destructive art of war. > Tho truth, not appreciated till mi

year, seems to be that the Prussians are centuries behind the English in civilisation. Their spirit is not yet civilised. Tins war is an immense effort to do for them in a year or two what it took five or six centuries to do for England and France. Of course, so rapid, a process is very hard on the material, and great quantities of raw Prussians are being destroyed in this effort to refine them. It is too bad. but what can be done about it so long as the only choice is whether the Prussians are to 'be civilised or civilisation Prussianised?—" Life," New York.