NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1883, 28 September 1918, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

In an .address delivered hy Professor Maxwell Walker, al Auckland, on “Woodrow Wilson: The Man and His Work,” he staled that there could be no doubt that our opinion concerning this great man had undergone a change during the past two years. Our opinion of him two years ago were coloured by considerations of national advantage, and were formed because he would not, al (hat lime, consent, to light and throw his weight into this great struggle. We had arrived at a stage now when most people in the world recognised (hat he -good forth a- one of the predominant figure- in the world.

The pastimes of the New Zealanders in the trenches were very adroitly woven into a new story Pdd by Dr, Thacker, M.P. (says the Lyttelton Times). He said that a medical man had told him that the ’hoys would het on anything, even to the number of rats that would pa--a given spot iu ten minutes. They had sweeps 011 (he New Zealand Cup, and (hey were even betting on whether Sir Joseph Ward and Air Massey would get back to New Zealand, or whether they would be torpedoed.

Not much news has been heard lor some, time of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, the renegade Englishman who has lived for many years in Germany, where he ha- made it hi- lile-work to attack and traduce his native country. Wc think wo chronicled I lie last news of him when, several mouths ago, we •muted a German paper which found his writings “100 thick,” and which recommended him. as a renegade, to hold his longue. The other day the Australian newspapers printed a cable message reporting that Chamberlain had been (hied C 75 for having slated, in an article m tin wildly pan-Gorman Deutsche Tageszeitung, that the Frankfurter Zeilimg was in English pay. The Frankfurter paper is regarded in British official circles as a thoroughly moderate and. despite tactical attitudes, Anglophile journal a fid throughout the war it has been conspicuously different in tone from the pan-German and semi-official organs. .Many of its articles in the past year must have alarmed and infuriated the extreme German .lingoes. and we have no doubt that Chamberlain's' libellous criticism is an indication that the Gazette’s an-ti-jingo altitude is having an effect on the German public’s mind. — Christchurch Press.