CURRENT TOPICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 229, 15 February 1913, Page 4

CURRENT TOPICS.

HOW TO EISE. Tlio way tor a young mati to vise is to improve himself- every way lie can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. Allow me (o assure vou that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation. There may sometimes ho ungenerous attempts to keep a yonn man down: and thev will succeed, too. if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over attempted injury. Cast about, ami see if this feeling has nol. injured every person you have ever known to fall into il. Abraham Lincoln.

A NI'AV ZEALAND FLEET. do not know whether the cable service uf the Sydnev Hun is more reliable than that supplied by the Press Association. 1 mit it is certainly ijiiite us •picturcsi|uc. In a recent issue it reports the TTon. Jas. Allen as having said, during (In l course of tile cei'cmonv of unveiling a trophy on the quarter deck of the battleship Xcw Zealand: "'I his ship sails from English heme waters to New Zealand home waters.'' Air. Allen is reported to have said. "We hope that in the rear future the latter will he her permanent home waters. Xew Zealand is prepared to give well-trusted men ami materials, and several warships, perhaps not so large as litis, will be manned by Aiaorilanders to assist the other dominions to police (he .Pacific Ocean." "This remark." adds the Sun's correspondent, "was interpreted as an indication that the Admiralty is arranging for a local fleet, with a base at Xew Zealand." If this is at all a fair refleet inn of what the Minister for Def'-nce really did say. he will have a few questions ,111-.■ i' wht-n next he takes his

•seal Oil Hie floor of Die House. If there is anything- of that sort to be. (lone, we can do it ourselves.

THE UNSPEAKABLE TURK. The "unspeakable Turk" appears to be maintaining to the last, the unenviable reputation for I/iiiuman savagery which has made Turkey the despair of civilised Europe. The latest fdes of the London newspapers show that the Turkish retreat upon Constantinople "was marked by frequent outrages. When the Turks were retreating from Uskub all Christian villages in the line of march were burned, while men and women were tortured and mutilated. The villages on the shore of Marmora, notably Ganos, Peristasis, Yeljik and Yenikeni, felt the heavy hand of the retreating Turks, but the sad ease of the villagers reached the ears of the Orthodox Patriarch, who was able to secure Russian intervention. The gunboat Donitz was sent to Peristasis and fifty Christian families were rescued. Although occasional cruelties have been committed by the Bulgarian troops, these have been confined to the irregulars. Of the regular Bulgarian Army the Turkish refugees have no complaint to make. They state that.the Bulgarians paid their way. and were not to bp feared half as much as (lie Turks, their own countryme!).