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THE

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South China Morning Prat.

Russia's Big Win.

The Austro-German dream of oneuing the Russians from one of Austria's richest provinces ap- peare now to be further then ever hom realisation. Thereisno ques- tion now that the Austrian si DE- tion is bopeless" Czernewitz is already oure" says the Petrograd communique, and with this im portant centre in their hands, the Russians have gained a complete mastery of the province of Bukhovina, of which it is the capital. The succes ive failures of the Anetrians may be due in a measure to the fact that they are short of ammunition and food, while the special correspondent of the Nieu Freie Przess recently gave out the lugubrious inform stion that the Austrien contractors bad also supplied bad powder, bad food and bad boola, a state- ment which has been generally confirmed since by other cor- reapcndents as well as by results,

Daily Pres.

Re-drawing the 'Map of Europe ♦ The English will still have to meet them and work side by eido with them in many parts of the world, and it is unlikely that the idiosyncrasies of such a nation can he moulded by a foreign band. Germany will have to work ont her own salvation along her own lines. Already before the war be- gan, the power of the democracy was being folt, and in the coures of another twenty or thirty yearS such a crisis as the present would perhapa have been impossible. It has been suggested that the House of Hohenzollern should be removed from supreme power, even 88 Napoleon was, but the össes are some bat diferent, and such extreme action might result in defeating the very object the Allies bave, in view. The crea tion of martyre is always a bad principle. It is doubtful whether democracy has reached sufficient strength in Germany to effect any My data revolution in the form of govern ment the deadening effect of militarism is yet too strong upon the people. But with the natural impoverishment of the country consequent on the war, and the necessity for retrenchment, it is to be hoped the power of milit Briem will be checked and time given for the people to awake from itindaence. Time will do the reED,

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China Mail,

The World Languages of the Future.

Certain of ultimate victory for France and England, a patriotic Frenchmen suggests in the Paris Temps that after the war the two Dations should do their almost to make their languages universal. Dividing the world in broad, sweeping strokes he would make English the tongue of North America and the Pacific and Indian Ocean, while i the Latin nations would be taught. to speak Freneb. This done be would next oblige the Eng lieh-speaking region to learn French and the French-speaking section to learn English. Bi | soheme does not appear to tackle the interesting and piquant pos sibilities of trying to impose these languages upon Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey. China, 100, is apparently, lazbe left in oster darkress Inciden. tally, he intimates thet in prao the English language should be the mediam of commerce în t) main, while Fronch should preferred for diplomacy, the drawing room, and world-travel Editorially speaking, the Temps admite that it is difficult to form a definite opinion of the praclio- Labilities of the writer's project

Yet it is worth conside are told, because the wri proposes

authori

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