Jan, 5.
Axy philosopher could moral: ize on the New Year anticipat tions of the different countries as revealed in our telegrams. a couple of days ago, but he would find it hard to extract a satis factory moral therefrom. Berlin riots uproariously: for foreign cers her festivities are too costly, but-the Berliners: goon to have louty of money to Can the: moral be that itypays* best not to pay one's debts? Meanwhile Paris announces that: the situation in the Ruhr is so much improved that General Degoutto has been able to reduce the army of occupation and France has leisure to arrange an-alliance with Czecho-Slovaki greatly perturbs the chancelleries of Europe. Are we to infer that-a policy of "force f the uttermost'" triumph long run? Certainly Ireland's case seems to indicate as much." A little while ago she had twelve thousand prisoners, mostly hunger-striking. They dropped thia davies because it made no impression on their gaolers and now there are but two thousand prisoners, and gunmen have put away their guns, and Free State ministers go about unguarded. America reports a state of unparalleled wealth: Russia begins to lift her head again: the end of the nightmare of Communism appears in sight. 'The Indian Nationalist Council inflicts a smart snub op Swaraj, implying that even the Babu begins to learn a little sense. Only from England comes' a humbler tone. 'The ays are dark, the past year's financial record is not encduraging; but still the King is confident "that, with God's help, the British, true to their great traditions, will face the outcome,' of the difficulties which are still confronting us at the close of "9. decade which, though. memér-.' able in glorious achievement has been beset by mich tri ud suffering.""
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