THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1912. INTERNATIONAL MORALITY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10615, 23 April 1912, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1912. INTERNATIONAL MORALITY.

An exceedingly earea&tic article by Mr .Sidney Low i.s published in the Fortnightly Review on "The Most Christian Powers." in which the writer remarks that during itflie ipast .ten years >a, wave of sheer materialism and tiftsofiite contempt ,for inernaitionial morality has -swept .across the foreign effifces of Europe, -and ha« reacted disastrously upon the various Eastern nations in their desperate /struggles to reform their Govornnnents, abolish autocracy, and estabHi a (constitutional system. Turkey, Persia <aud .China have had good reason ito doubt the benevolence of the "most Christian !"Power,s." Mr Sidney Low points to Austria'is-ainnexa'tton of two Turkish provinces, and .Russia's encouragement to Bulgaria to declare its indepcndenJco. Italy's -atta-ck on (Tripoli .he calls "sheer .robbery under arms." And not a. single European Government oven formulated ,the mildest of n-enwnuistiranoes. England, he says, upheld France in .suppressing the independence of Morcceio, and is upholding, Russia in attacking the in-, dependence of Persia, ihcr action in hoth /cases being dictated by a desire "to stand well with the dcsptoilovs in view of a a>oasible attack from Germany. Russia is also grabbing at Mongolia, now that China is so much divided thy .infernal dissension as to bo .uuahlo in rostram foreign aggress?

ion*. Mr Low presumes that if Ilussia gets Mongolia, Japan will demand Manchuria as "compensation," and iJJrit:vin, tFra.nce and Germany will each want a slice of China. "In any earse," writes Ma- ujow, "the transaction is unlikely to convince intelligent Buddhists, any mtore than tho Persian {proceedings have convinced our Mohammedan fellow-subjects in India, of ibho superior morality which informs the foreign (policy of the Christian jPowers of the West in .their relations J with the Governments an>l pooplcis of | the ibrown and black and yellow world." *