LATE WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 132, 6 February 1915, Page 2

LATE WAR NEWS.

GERMAN DEFEAT NOW CERTAIN

SCATHING COMMENT IN AN AMERICAN JOURNAL. In one of the most striking leading articles which has appeared in. the American press since the outbreak of the war the New York Times says: "Germany is doomed to sure defeat. Bankrupt *i|U statesmanships overmatched in arms, under the moral condemnation c-f the civilised world, befriended only by Austria and the ll;vlc —two b-ickward-lcokingv dying nations —desperately battling with the host cf three Great Powers, she pours out the blood of her heroic subjects and'wastes her diminishing substance in a hopeless struggle that,■postponesbut cannot alter the fatal decree.

"Vej; the doom of the German Empire may become, the deliverance of the' German people. A million Germans have been sacrificed and a millien German homes are desolate. Must other millions' die and other millions mourn before the people, of Germany take the appeal in the Court of Reason and Human Liberty from the Imperial military caste that rushes them .0 ruin? They have full justification in the incompetence and failure of their rulers. "When the invaders were driven back from the Marne, Germany's ultimate defeat was registered in the book of fate and heralded to the watching world. "There is within the German view =tn even mere sinister portent. The world cannot and will not let Germany win the war If she were to demiate Europe, peace and security would vanish from the earth. A few months ago the world only dimly comprehended Germany. It now knows 'horcughly that for its. own peace and safety the nations must demolish the ■cwering structure of militarism in the centre cf Europe that has become the vorld's danger-spot and greatest nenaee. "Why should the German people make a further sacrifice of blood to save the pride and the shoulder straps T German officialdom? Since a more Ireadful ending is in view why not ?crce a better ending now? "Americans cf German birth or descent should see and feel the truth -,f the present position of Germany, "t would be unfraternal and most cruel for German-Americans to keep the truth from Germans at home, and to fail in their plain duty of making known to them how the Imperial milltraistic ideal has fallen in the world's esteem, and how the enemies they now confront are but the first line cf civilisation's defences." —Reuter.

IMPORTANT DISCOVERY

An announcement has recently been ! made ct' the discovery of a new proi cess ct application of sulphur dyes to i wool, silk, and ether fabrics, and the | announcement has caused something I of a sensation in Yorkshire. " Ref err-. j ing to the discovery, the Drapers' Re- ! ecrd for November says that although i the discovery has only just been hert aided in the newspapers, many dyers \ and manufacturers had the value of ! the process placed before them a long j time ago, and were not altogether con- [ vinceel of its efficacy That was before j the war broke out and German anij line dyes were easily obtainable, and

j when manufacturers were too busy I with their own affairs to pay attention I to anything new, even though it had | the merit at least of cheapness added •to its efficiency. Now, however, the i new process of application of sulphur dyes is having an extensive trial by the majority of woollen and worsted manufacturers who have their own dyeing plants, and the Board of Trade are testing the new process. One of the discoverers is a gentleman who has spent 26 years of his life in the : chemical and dyeing department of i the Huddersfield Technical College I and the other is a former pupil of his. They laboured for two years, and eventually perfected a process which promises to revolutionise the wool and silk dyeing industry of Ihe Old Land. | When it is stated that nine-tenths of the silk used in England have been I dyed on the Continent, the significance | of the discovers* may be gauged. The process has been put on the market, and tfie method of dyeing is said to be simple and easy of application. Inciuiriew amongst manufacturers in : Huddersfield elicited the fact that the new discovery is now held to be one of extreme importance, and it is confidntly believed that its adoption will jbe universal, because it is not only ; satisfactory, but cheaper than the i aniline process.