WAR TOPICS IN BRIEF.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 January 1916, Page 12

WAR TOPICS IN BRIEF.

Greece invented the Dilemma. And now ltow does she like it?— New York Evening Sun. Anyway, those trenches should give Europe a wonderful subway system after the war.—Columbia State. Cheer 3 by the House of Commons when Churchill informed them he was going to the front can be taken any. way you please.—Washington Post. If Holland wishes to remain neutral why docs she take a chance on arousing the Irish by issuing an orange book? —Cleveland Plain Dealer. The worst of it is that those "slackers" who prefer to leave their homes rather than fight intend coming to America.—Charleston News and Courier. Nevertheless, Wilhclm can point with pride to the fact that he is still about a hundred Americans ahead of Franz Josef.—Philadelphia Public Ledger. Englishmen are told that they can only escape conscription by enlisting at once. That is, they get their choice of going willingly or just going.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. One is not as proud of living in the twentieth century as one was a few years ago.—Chicago Daily News. It is so seldom Austria has a victory all to herself that the commander of the submarine may have become unduly excited.—New York Mail. The British arc not alone responsible for the failure of the Dardanelles—the Turks had at least something to do with it. —San Francisco Chronicle. The real "accident" will very soon be for a munitions-plant to get through ft month without a mysterious fire or explosion.—New York Evening Post. Considering the effectiveness of the ■relief-expedition to Belgium and Servia nobody could blame fireeee and Roumania for demanding the relief first, —N«w York Evening Sun.