GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 3, 5 January 1916, Page 4

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

GIR OLIVER LODGE'S VIEWS.

ON OUTCOME OF WAR

(Reed. 8.20 a.m.) LONDON, January 4

At a conference of educationists of the University of London, Sir Oliver Lodge, in an address, said the war had opened the eyes of the nation to two danger signals. The first was sent up by our foes, who concentrated r n purely material ideals, which had elevated them to a region of worship and sentiment. Our danger signal was not so soul-destroying, but it was nevertheless, bad; it was our neglect of intellectual things, 'and the ignorance of natural facts. What had become apparent was the ignorance of the governing classes, and of all classes, of our courage and personal character, which alone had saved us. AWAKENING OF PACIFIC. A A CONSUL-GENERAL'S BOOK.

AUSTRALIA'S SOCIALISTIC STATES.

MELBOUKKE, Jan. 4.

Senator Pearce, in the course of an interview, quoted extracts from a book published recently by Georgia Turner, the German Consul-Genoral, entitled "The Awakening of the People of the Pacific. 5 ' Turner declares* "I visited many villages where only one person spoke English and as I left I could hear them singing 'Deutschland über alles.' " He states that the Australasian colonies -have ripened into socialistic States working strenuously towards the severance of the last link binding them to the Motherland. It was not on that account that England would be rendered military assistance, but because" they wanted Samoa and ISTew Guinea. Turner concludes: "Injury has been made to Germany, but in a wise future colonial policy the position will be different to what it has been. After victory we will bind on the -helmet tighter.''