MAP-MAKING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 96, 18 September 1914, Page 4

MAP-MAKING.

World map-making is a quec t , 'ilefin.Lth 11 '" 1183 '" AuokJa " !l Herald). Tfmish is never wlhat was exipected 3 ® process Iran never vet followed fcha is «,e great E t Fmnir ° f deliberat e | y map-mSk:n<> Empire, and Russia has called into ev° istence States that her dead Tsars never meant to create, and is to-day reanimating the .Poland that) she helped Pruabia to destroy. Britain has never I I LlJ mP r ' m<lk '" B an ' has alwavsl esiated, d,t new responsibilities, has I VfcYa'd f T in and &S * in ' teJ'ritoT--3 ™ a f lla(l fallen into her lap. Tilings have always fallen into Britak's la? She ha* had to 'be shaken waxed' I mi eate v™ l oT pellcd -P 3 -^' the ' W ! icd. Without any intention of world-' conquest, she has becomt , WI(J of world-nations; trembling at her own temerity she has timidly tuiken whatshe Shi v r t S P'\ ma ' rd s twitdi-grass ■ ' , Englishman s foot, - ' /because when ,' ls , OJ \ CO m a ooumtry it can never he rooted out. QpeakiL ofjS «W, another <* C urs £ bearing o a r- TJ '° greateSt Pkdgo that Ww"Tn l C;Ul f VC 18 "° n II * t 7- !ui ? there 18 nothing greater tabled honor of the Oastilian may be lueaininglßss but the word of the Eni ™, 13 as -I ™ ,the skies. Whatever Urn-ens, ,t standa true. Perhaps we hE rf K^T tt J kBOW tlle fu « »«*■»•' ing of Britain a redemption of her pied,m to Belgium as it), appeared to the struggling peoples. England kept her word of ccurie, but why shouldn't she? Were <L f? oar self-respect and -he made -shamed to look one another in The eve! Jhat i 8 our point of view. But to countless millions i n this wcrld of our.; -the keeping (by England oi fler word was wiin,» f ndi ins P iri ng thing, that will be told of, generations after generLlTi S n vllla S esl and distant lands, and -will keep alive in many a heart, faith in humanity and hope for mankind. War is roafniaklndeed iUO w e that, thanks to British .honor and the Britis'i tke mip-making game is being earned on in turapo, and not here in New Zealand. Our independence w as much at stake as that of tlie Belgians; New Zealand's fate depends on • he issue, as does the fato of New Caledonia and Old Algiers. We mi"ht not oe minted black to-day, perhaps" if the trermana won their desperate ad•venture, and if Britain were weak ™ <>U "; I , to now and to leave undone the great work of ploughing German aggression . w ith e aJt; but very soon that fate would (befall us, and richly should we deservo it if we had not done our duty in the hour of .trial when tllie Empire called The war is ™ ar f \ for we alß ° on the map, and at the mercy *>f Gcrraaoi map-mak-A , v U U3fi thcir pajnt. And on the plains and hills of Europe, where the map-makers are sit£Ork, men are nee( i wl to smDll ] ler the Jvaiser ;n his own paint, and to teach four million Germans that freedom is Mill a power m the world. New ZeaZnSr° t I ? Ddtoo,nan y fflCn ' aml slle cannot bend too good men; for there in; Jiiurope is our own New Zealand fichtwhere alone colonial pente can take part in this great remak-1 ing ot the map. i