BEHAVING SANELY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 97, 14 August 1914, Page 4

BEHAVING SANELY.

Christchurch Sun says; One of the most reassuring aspects of the gigantic trouble in the Mother Country is the sanity and coolness that have been exhibited' by all grades of society. After all the talk of years of the German menace, Englishmen are face to face with the grim ‘prospect of actual war, but there is no hysteria. On every hand preparations for defence and offence are going forward with a businesslike seriousness that .exacts admiration.. It has. come homo to the people that here is : a cause _which. England, for the , ultimate of, the world and her own future selfprpservation, must champion, loth as slip was to take the extreme step. When the time came for the dread declaration of war against the .Germans, that declaration was made rith the knowledge that no other alternative was left England—the gage was, flung in her face. It would not have been altogether surprising had the acceptance of the challenge Been succeeded by panic in some shape or form, hut there ' has been no , such disturbance of the public mind. 'Oil the contrary,' an astonishing lack 'of alarm lias followed the declaration of and, preparation for war. The Government has set the people-a splendid example in its cool determination in inch a crisis.