TALK ABOUT THE WAR.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3984, 17 July 1915, Page 8

TALK ABOUT THE WAR.

Germany may be able to keep the wolf from the door, but how about the bear?— “Columbia State.”

Perhaps in modern warfare the national flag ought to be painted on a merchant ship’s bottom “Spiingfied Republican.” A censorship is admittedly nccessaiy but strange it is that censorships never cease to bo ridi ulousl—Mr Arnold Bennett.

Germany bus now cut our potatoes, white bread, pretzels and beer, ami the wurst is yet to come.— “ Boston Transcript.” No army in the wojrld can boast of men more stalwart, more active, or more healthy than the young fellows from our overseas Dominions. Loid Brvce.

The Power that first makes proposals of peace is always considered to be unable long to continue the war. —Dr. J. Holland Eos*.

Do not pray for peace now, I cannot conceive a worse catastrophe foi the human race than peace in Em ope now.—Dr. Eliot (of Harvard). Homo of the inhabitants of Poland are for the Kaiser, and some are against him. Positive and negative Poles, so to speak.— “ Boston Transcript.” At Itheims schools have been improvised in champagne cellars. A good many American college liien may decide to'finish their education abroad. “New A'ork Puck.” Germany’s rubber famine is rapidly becoming acute. "VS e thought there seemed to be less bounce about the Germans lately.—“ London Opinion.” Whether to knit or not to knit at the opera is a burning issue in certain circles. Why not, if it does not interfere with conversation?—“New York \V oriel.”

The Ariel, which rammed and sank the submarine Ul2, belongs to what is known as the “I ' class of destroyers. “1,” she said in effect, “am better than “U”.—'“Punch.”