The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, August 20, 1912. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1085, 20 August 1912, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, August 20, 1912. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

In our last issue we touched ou the neglect of the Government, up to the present, to make some provision tor the veterans who served during the Maori war. A correspondent in yesterday's N.Z. Times says that there is a veteran “very ill in the Otaki Hospital, who was in both the Crimean and the Maori wars. He has copies of papers to show that he was recommended by Colonel McDonell for the New Zealand Cross, and yet he does not get one penny to help him in his old age. All he gets is a small pension from the Government for working lor them for thirty-two years, not enough to keep himself in bare necessities, and when be dies his pension dies with him. That is what they call justice to the veterans.” These veterans are surely entitled to something more than the old age pension.

The Hon. Maurice Baring, who arrived in New Zealand on a brief visit last week from Sydney, although a comparatively young man, has had a distinguished career. He entered the Diplomatic Service in 1898, and was appointed Attache to the British Embassy in Paris. In 1900 he was transferred to Copenhagen, and in 1902 to Rome. Afterwards he was employed in the Foreign Office, but resigned in 1904 and went out to Manchuria as war correspondent for the Morning Post. He also acted as special correspondent ol that journal in Russia alter the war. During the course of an interview, Mr Bai ing made some interesting remarks about the “Yellow Peril.” The Chinaman’s aim, he says, is peace. “Nevertheless,” he adds, “the victory ol the Japanese over European troops may very likely produce a change of some kind. Monsieur Anatole France, in his latest book, wittily says that what we have to fear from the “yellow peril’’ is nothing in comparison with what the Chinese have to fear from the “white peril,’’ and that so far the Chinese have not yet lootdd the Eouvre nor has a Chinese fleet bombarded Cherbourg. I should say that the “yellow peril” will depend for its realiiy and extent entirely on this ; How seriously the Chinese will consider the “while peril” ru be, ami how obnoxious will Europeans make themselves to the Chinese. It the Europeans appear to them to step over the limit of what is bearable, they will take measures accordingly.