News of the World.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 August 1911, Page 4

News of the World.

The following items arc from the Australian papers employing the independent cnblo service :— Paris, July 29.

Henri Bernstein, the French playwright, whoso latest work, " Apres Moil" was forced off the .stage at the Coinedie Franeaiso as a result of tho riots organised by .loyalists, ihas fought another duel. His opponent was to have been the man Lacour, who is serving three years in gaol for assaulting the la to M. Briand. a former Minister of War, but the GoveriHtK;ut refused permission for his opponent to leave th-?. prison, even temporarily, and M. Maurice Pujo, another Royalist, took .L-acour's place. Swords were chosen, and the contest was rapid and exciting. Bernstein scratched his adversary twice, and was himself slightly wounded before the seconds .slopped the duel in the seventh bout. July 31. A report which has been published but which is not taken seriously, declares that Germany has demanded the dismissal of .Mr Lloyd-George I'oi his recent banquet speech. The British Government, it is said, has advised Germany that the Chancellor's speech embodied its views on the Moroccan question. No authority, however, is given for the statement. The incident is not unlike that which resulted in the dismissal upon Germany's demand, of M. Delca.sse, who w.a=i then Foreign Minister. London, July 2!). Mr A. G. Gardiner, the editor of bhe Loi don Daily News, and a keen thinker and able writer on European polities in a letter to the Contemporarv Review, says that the Imperial Coni'eronco demonstrated the utter impracticability of the Imperialists' scheme of Empire and the sufficiency of Liberal ideas. "But." he. proceeds, "the Conference revealed the eversas dominions as no longer in political embryo, but in the. light of mature communities -- stmtv/, self-reliant, and independent : communities that, opened (he nrairies and waste spaces of the earth to build their stale upon the rock of freedom: that loved theMotherland devotedly because she respected that freedom. Tho Conservative vision of Empire, as the fa' , , shining tail of a comet who.se head is the office of the Tariff l?e----i'orm League is dissipated for ever." The writer recalls the eighteenth century triumph of tho Imperialists which, he asserts, cost their country tlui American colonies, despite Burke's protest, in which the principles of Liberalism were enshrined for all time. 'If we had. sought t<; nut tbe colonies in the straight-jac-, ket of Imperialism." he concludes, "t'lov would have <;ono the way of th" United States. Tint we gave tlu'in liberty, and they remain our children."

August 1. Berlin messages contain indications Mint there is some truth in the story fclrat Germany may demand the dismissal of Mr Lloyd-George fr. in the Treasury. This news ha.s cau«e:l increased bittc-riu-ss in some quarters against tho Germans. Follow i'ikc the new.sp.'iner comments on tlv Chancellor's recent speech, the Gr-rman Government requested an ox]ilar:ntion. nnd wis thereupon informer 1 ! that Great Britain was disinterested in Ih'.v sitmtion cut-side Morocco But for this in all probability i'he situation would have been one of extreme gravity.