VICTIMS OF GERMAN KULTURWhatever be the other facts regarding theLusitania, the principal fact is that a great steamer, primarily and chiefly a conveyance for passengers, and carrying more than a thousand souls having no part or lot in the conduct of the war, was torpedoed and sunk without so much as a challenge or a warning, that men, women and children were sent to their death in circumstances unparalleled in modern warfare.United States Government’sNote to Germany.THE VERDICT“It is the Hour, come”We find that this appalling crime was contrary to International law and the conventions of all civilized nations, and we therefore charge the officers of the said submarine, and the Emperor of the Government of Germany, under whose orders they acted, with the crime of wilful and wholesale murder before the tribunal of the civilized world. We desire to express our sincere condolence with the relatives of deceased; the Cunard Company; and the United States of America, so many of whose citizens perished in this murderous attack on an unarmed liner.The unanimous verdict of the Irish jury atthe inquest of the “Lusitania” victims.“THIS IS TOO BORING, DO SUGGEST SOMETHING NEW”Some German achievements in the first months of the Great War:The violation of Belgium and Luxemburg.Massacre of civilian populations in Belgium and France.Bombardment by warships of open towns.Murder of civilians by air raids.Murder of civilians on the high seas.The introduction of liquid fire and poison gas.Enslavement of conquered civilian communities.“HAVE ANOTHER PIECE?”Without a drop of blood flowing, and without the life of a single Italian being endangered, Italy could have secured the long list of concessions which I recently read to the House—territory in Tyrol and on the Isonzo as far as the Italian speech is heard, satisfactions of the national aspirations in Trieste, a free hand in Albania, and the valuable port of Valona.Von Bethmann-Hollweg.Reichstag, May 28, 1915.THE WOLF-TRAPItaly: “You would make me believe thatI shall have my cub given back to me,but I know I shall have to fight for it”The discussion continued for months from the first days of December to March, and it was not until the end of March that Barion Burian offered a zone of territory comprised within a line extending from the existing boundary to a point just north of the City of Trent.In exchange for this proposed cession the Austro-Hungarian Government demanded a number of pledges, including among them an assurance of entire liberty of action in the Balkans.Note should be made of the fact that the cession of the territory around Trent was not intended to be immediately effective as we demanded, but was to be made only upon the termination of the European War.Signor Sonnino.Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs.May 25, 1915.THE BROKEN ALLIANCE AND ITALY“Twenty years and more you’ve forcedme to wear this chain”For the guardianship, therefore, of these treaties the government of the kingdom of Italy found itself constrained to notify the Imperial Austrian Government on the fourth of this month, May, 1915, that it must withdraw all of its proposals of agreement, denounce the treaty of the alliance, and declare its own liberty of action. Nor, on the other hand, was it more possible to leave Italy in isolation without security and without prestige, just at the moment in which the history of the world was taking on a decisive phase.Everything else we must forget from this moment, and remember only this: to beItalians, to love all Italy with the same faith and fervor. The forces of all must be cemented into one single heart; only one single will must guide all toward the wished for end; and force, and art, and will must find their expression one, alive, and heroic in the army and navy of Italy and in the august leader who conducts them toward the destiny of the new history.Antonio Salandra.President of the Ministerial Council.Rome. May 20, 1915.GOTT STRAFE ITALIENNeither Serbia nor Russia, despite a long and costly war, is hated. Italy, however, or rather those Italian would be politicians and business men who offer violence to the majority of peaceful Italian people, are so unutterably hated with the most profound honesty that this war can produce.The Frankfurter Zeitung, May 25, 1915.THE LATIN SISTERSItaly: “Indeed she is my sister”Giuseppe Garibaldi with a corps of Italian soldiers went to the defense of the French Republic in the war of 1870 against the Prussians, performing heroic deeds at Dijon worthy of an epopee.Ricciotti Garibaldi, living son of the Hero, with a corps of Italian volunteers went to the defense of Greece against Turkey in 1897, performing heroic deeds worthy of an epopee at Domokos.Peppino Garibaldi, living son of Ricciotti, with a corps of Italian volunteers went to the defense of the French Republic in the present war against Germany, performing heroic deeds worthy of an epopee in the Argonne.From “Why Italy entered the Great War.”Luigi Carnovale.THE ZEPPELIN TRIUMPH“But Mother had done nothing wrong,had she, Daddy?”The first Zeppelin attack on London was made on the evening of the last day of May, 1915. Zeppelins passed over Colchester at 10 o’clock, and at twenty-three minutes past ten the people in one of the poorest and most crowded quarters of East End were startled to find bomb after bomb, mainly of incendiary type, dropping among them. A large number of civilians including many women and children were killed.By shell from sea, by bomb from air,Our greeting shall be sped,Making each English homesteadA mansion of the dead.And even Grey will trembleAs falls each iron word;“God punish England, brother?Yea! Punish her, O Lord!”A Hymn of Hate byHerr Hochstetter.Translated byCapt. G. Valentine Williams.London Daily Mail.MY SON, GO AND FIGHT FORYOUR MOTHERLANDIS YOUR CONSCIENCE CLEAR?Ask your conscience why you are staying comfortably at home instead of doingyourshare for your King and Country.1. Are you too old?The only man who is too old is the man who is over 38.2. Are you physically fit?The only man who can say honestly that he is not physically fit is the man who has been told so by a Medical Officer.3. Do you suggest you cannot leave your business?In this great crisis the only man who cannot leave his business is the man who is himself actually doing work for the Government.If your conscience is not clear on these three points your duty is plain.ENLIST TO-DAYGod Save the KingNewspaper advertisement inBritish Press, May, 1915.THE SACRIFICE—FOR HUMANITY’S SAKEThe women of Great Britain will never forget what Belgium has done for all that women hold most dear.In the days to come mothers will tell their children how a small but great-souled nation fought to the death against overwhelming odds and sacrificed all things to save the world from an intolerable tyranny.The story of the Belgian people’s defense of freedom will inspire countless generations yet unborn.Emmeline Pankhurst,in “King Albert’s Book.”ON TICKET-OF-LEAVE“Next time I’ll wear a German Helmet andplead ‘Military Necessity’”The German went into this war with a mind which had been carefully trained out of the idea of every moral sense or obligation, private, public, or international. He does not recognize the existence of any law, least of all those he has subscribed to himself, in making war against women and children.All mankind bears witness to-day that there is no crime, no cruelty, no abomination that the mind of man can conceive which the German has not perpetrated, is not perpetrating, and will not perpetrate if he is allowed to go on.These horrors and perversions were not invented by him on the spur of the moment. They were arranged beforehand. Their outlines are laid down in the German war book. They are part of the system in which Germany has been scientifically trained. It is the essence of that system to make such a hell of countries where their armies set foot that any terms she may offer will seem like heaven to the people whose bodies she has defiled and whose minds she has broken of set purpose and intention.Rudyard Kipling,at Southport, England, June, 1915.ANOTHER GERMAN “VICTORY”In June the Germans once more turned to the East and the North-East Coast. On June 4, 1915, there was a raid, doing some slight damage; and two days later there was another, by far the most serious of any that had yet happened. The raiders succeeded in reaching a town on the East Coast during the night and bombed it at their leisure. One large drapery house was struck and was completely wrecked, the entire building—a somewhat old one—collapsing. Some working-class streets were very badly damaged, a number of houses destroyed, and many people injured. It was one of the peculiarities of this raid that, unlike most of the others, all the people injured were struck while indoors. The total casualties here were twenty-four killed, about sixty seriously injured, and a larger number slightly injured.Times History of the War.“He was a brave ‘Zepp,’ he had already killed over one hundred women and children”The outrage (see preceding page) was quickly avenged by a young British naval airman, Flight Sub-Lieut. R. A. J. Warneford, in one of the most brilliant aerial exploits of the war.On the morning of June 7 at 3a.m.he encountered a Zeppelin returning from the coast of Flanders to Ghent, and chased it, mounting above it and sailing over it at a height of 6,000 feet. Zeppelin and aeroplane exchanged shots, and when the Zeppelin was between one and two hundred feet immediately below him he dropped six bombs on it. One bomb hit the Zeppelin fairly, causing a terrific explosion, and setting the airship on fire from end to end. Warneford’s aeroplane was caught by the force of the explosion and turned upside down, but he succeeded in righting it before it touched the ground. He was forced to alight within the German lines. Nevertheless he restarted his engine, though not without great difficulty, and in due course returned to his station without damage. Only the framework of the Zeppelin was left, the crew being all burned or mangled, and the body of the machine being completely destroyed.Times History of the War.THE GREAT SURPRISEMoses II. leads his chosen people throughthe channel to the promised (Eng.) landFrom a military or political or economic point of view one should look at the matter (the capture of Calais) with the eyes of Great Britain and define the Calais idea as a possibility for a seafaring continental power to conduct a war against Great Britain from the continental coast channel and with all military resources while holding open communication between the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea.Count von Reventlow.June, 1915.BOTHA TO BRITAIN“I have carried out everything in accordance with our compact at Vereeniging”On July 9, 1915, a despatch from General Botha was published stating that he had brought his campaign in South-West Africa to a triumphant close, and had received the unconditional surrender of Governor Sietz and the German forces of 3,500 men. The campaign, commencing in February, had lasted five months. The patriotic devotion of General Botha and the loyalty of the great majority of the Dutch people to the cause of the British Empire were a magnificent vindication of the Liberal Cabinet’s policy of reconciliation after the close of the South African war.THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IN ARMSThe self-governing Colonies in the British Empire have at their disposal a ‘militia,’ which is sometimes only a process of formation. They can be completely ignored so far as concerns any European theatre of war.Von Bernhardi,1911.Our thoughts naturally turn to the splendid efforts of the Oversea Dominions and India, who, from the earliest days of the war, have ranged themselves side by side with the Mother Country. The prepared armed forces of India were the first to take the field, closely followed by the gallant Canadians—who are now fighting alongside their British and French comrades in Flanders. In the Dardanelles the Australians and New Zealanders—combined with the same elements, have already accomplished a feat of arms of almost unexampled brilliancy. In each of these great Dominions new and large contingents are being prepared, while South Africa, not content with the successful conclusion of the arduous campaign in South-West Africa, is now offering large forces to engage the enemy in the main theatre of war.Lord Kitchener,Guildhall speech, July 9, 1915.There are now in training or in the field 350,000 troops of the overseas dominions alone, while this country, on estimate, has at least 2,775,000 men in the field or in training.Sir Gilbert Parker,July, 1915.JOHN BULL: “COME ON,MICHAEL, I’M AWAKE NOW”Rightly or wrongly, we have in the past devoted our energies and our intelligence, not to preparations for war, but to that social progress which makes for the happiness and contentment of the mass of our people. And this, no doubt, is the reason why other nations imagine that we, as a nation of shopkeepers, are too indolent and apathetic to fight for and maintain these priceless liberties won by the men who laid the foundation of our vast empire.But they are entirely mistaken in forming any such estimate of the temperament or determination of our people. Great Britain hates war, and no nation enters more reluctantly upon its horrible and devastating operations; but at the same time no nation, when it is driven to war by the machinations of its foes who desire to filch from it or from its co-champions of liberty any portion of their inherited freedom, is more resolved to see the matter through, at whatever cost, to a successful issue.Sir Edward Carson,British Attorney-General.Statement on first twelve months of war.L’AVENIRThe only peace which the republic can accept is that which guarantees the security of Europe and which will permit us to breathe and to live and to work to reconstruct our dismembered country and repair our ruins, a peace which will effectively protect us against any offensive return of the Germanic ambitions.The present generations are accountable for France to posterity. They will not permit the profanation of the trust which their ancestors confided to their charge. France is determined to conquer; she will conquer.President of the French Republic.From speech on the conclusion of thefirst year of war.ORANJE BOVENGerman Oculist, trying on spectacles:“What do you read now?”Dutchman: “Deutschland über Alles.”German Oculist: “That is right: thatpair exactly suits you.”“Oranje Boven” is the Dutch cry which answers to the German “Deutschland über Alles.”The cartoons reproduced upon the opposite and following pages are selected examples of the series drawn for and published in “The Amsterdam Telegraaf,” at the time when Holland was invaded by an army of spies and secret agents who carried on a vast system of pro-German propaganda. These cartoons represent Raemaekers’ reply.It was during the publication of these pictures that a price was set upon his head by the German Government, and he was charged by the Dutch Government, at the instance of the representatives of the Central Powers with “endangering the neutrality of Holland,” a form of persecution which had an effect quite opposite to that intended, as it resulted only in drawing the attention of the Allies and other Neutrals to the power and significance of Raemaekers’ cartoons, which was followed by a much wider distribution of his work.THE ENVOY TO HER MAJESTY“Madam, your soldiers will get splendid Prussian uniforms and Your Majesty will have a place of honour in the retinue of the Kaiser”BETTER A LIVING DOG THAN A DEAD LIONThe Driver: “You are a worthy Dutchman. He who lies in that grave was a foolish idealist”THE DUTCH JUNKERS“At least we shall get posts as gamekeepers when Germany takes us after the war”THE EAGLE IN THE HEN RUNGerman Eagle: “Come along, Dutch chicken, we will easily arrange an agreement.”The Dutch chicken: “Yes, in your stomach.”OUR CANDID FRIEND“I shall have to swallow you up if only to prevent those English taking your Colonies”THE FREE SEAGermany’s idea of what it would make of it for Holland
Whatever be the other facts regarding theLusitania, the principal fact is that a great steamer, primarily and chiefly a conveyance for passengers, and carrying more than a thousand souls having no part or lot in the conduct of the war, was torpedoed and sunk without so much as a challenge or a warning, that men, women and children were sent to their death in circumstances unparalleled in modern warfare.
United States Government’sNote to Germany.
“It is the Hour, come”
We find that this appalling crime was contrary to International law and the conventions of all civilized nations, and we therefore charge the officers of the said submarine, and the Emperor of the Government of Germany, under whose orders they acted, with the crime of wilful and wholesale murder before the tribunal of the civilized world. We desire to express our sincere condolence with the relatives of deceased; the Cunard Company; and the United States of America, so many of whose citizens perished in this murderous attack on an unarmed liner.
The unanimous verdict of the Irish jury atthe inquest of the “Lusitania” victims.
Some German achievements in the first months of the Great War:
The violation of Belgium and Luxemburg.
Massacre of civilian populations in Belgium and France.
Bombardment by warships of open towns.
Murder of civilians by air raids.
Murder of civilians on the high seas.
The introduction of liquid fire and poison gas.
Enslavement of conquered civilian communities.
Without a drop of blood flowing, and without the life of a single Italian being endangered, Italy could have secured the long list of concessions which I recently read to the House—territory in Tyrol and on the Isonzo as far as the Italian speech is heard, satisfactions of the national aspirations in Trieste, a free hand in Albania, and the valuable port of Valona.
Von Bethmann-Hollweg.Reichstag, May 28, 1915.
Italy: “You would make me believe thatI shall have my cub given back to me,but I know I shall have to fight for it”
The discussion continued for months from the first days of December to March, and it was not until the end of March that Barion Burian offered a zone of territory comprised within a line extending from the existing boundary to a point just north of the City of Trent.
In exchange for this proposed cession the Austro-Hungarian Government demanded a number of pledges, including among them an assurance of entire liberty of action in the Balkans.Note should be made of the fact that the cession of the territory around Trent was not intended to be immediately effective as we demanded, but was to be made only upon the termination of the European War.
Signor Sonnino.Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs.May 25, 1915.
“Twenty years and more you’ve forcedme to wear this chain”
For the guardianship, therefore, of these treaties the government of the kingdom of Italy found itself constrained to notify the Imperial Austrian Government on the fourth of this month, May, 1915, that it must withdraw all of its proposals of agreement, denounce the treaty of the alliance, and declare its own liberty of action. Nor, on the other hand, was it more possible to leave Italy in isolation without security and without prestige, just at the moment in which the history of the world was taking on a decisive phase.
Everything else we must forget from this moment, and remember only this: to beItalians, to love all Italy with the same faith and fervor. The forces of all must be cemented into one single heart; only one single will must guide all toward the wished for end; and force, and art, and will must find their expression one, alive, and heroic in the army and navy of Italy and in the august leader who conducts them toward the destiny of the new history.
Antonio Salandra.President of the Ministerial Council.Rome. May 20, 1915.
Neither Serbia nor Russia, despite a long and costly war, is hated. Italy, however, or rather those Italian would be politicians and business men who offer violence to the majority of peaceful Italian people, are so unutterably hated with the most profound honesty that this war can produce.
The Frankfurter Zeitung, May 25, 1915.
Italy: “Indeed she is my sister”
Giuseppe Garibaldi with a corps of Italian soldiers went to the defense of the French Republic in the war of 1870 against the Prussians, performing heroic deeds at Dijon worthy of an epopee.
Ricciotti Garibaldi, living son of the Hero, with a corps of Italian volunteers went to the defense of Greece against Turkey in 1897, performing heroic deeds worthy of an epopee at Domokos.
Peppino Garibaldi, living son of Ricciotti, with a corps of Italian volunteers went to the defense of the French Republic in the present war against Germany, performing heroic deeds worthy of an epopee in the Argonne.
From “Why Italy entered the Great War.”Luigi Carnovale.
“But Mother had done nothing wrong,had she, Daddy?”
The first Zeppelin attack on London was made on the evening of the last day of May, 1915. Zeppelins passed over Colchester at 10 o’clock, and at twenty-three minutes past ten the people in one of the poorest and most crowded quarters of East End were startled to find bomb after bomb, mainly of incendiary type, dropping among them. A large number of civilians including many women and children were killed.
By shell from sea, by bomb from air,Our greeting shall be sped,Making each English homesteadA mansion of the dead.And even Grey will trembleAs falls each iron word;“God punish England, brother?Yea! Punish her, O Lord!”
A Hymn of Hate byHerr Hochstetter.Translated byCapt. G. Valentine Williams.London Daily Mail.
IS YOUR CONSCIENCE CLEAR?
Ask your conscience why you are staying comfortably at home instead of doingyourshare for your King and Country.
1. Are you too old?
The only man who is too old is the man who is over 38.
2. Are you physically fit?
The only man who can say honestly that he is not physically fit is the man who has been told so by a Medical Officer.
3. Do you suggest you cannot leave your business?
In this great crisis the only man who cannot leave his business is the man who is himself actually doing work for the Government.
If your conscience is not clear on these three points your duty is plain.
ENLIST TO-DAY
God Save the King
Newspaper advertisement inBritish Press, May, 1915.
The women of Great Britain will never forget what Belgium has done for all that women hold most dear.
In the days to come mothers will tell their children how a small but great-souled nation fought to the death against overwhelming odds and sacrificed all things to save the world from an intolerable tyranny.
The story of the Belgian people’s defense of freedom will inspire countless generations yet unborn.
Emmeline Pankhurst,in “King Albert’s Book.”
“Next time I’ll wear a German Helmet andplead ‘Military Necessity’”
The German went into this war with a mind which had been carefully trained out of the idea of every moral sense or obligation, private, public, or international. He does not recognize the existence of any law, least of all those he has subscribed to himself, in making war against women and children.
All mankind bears witness to-day that there is no crime, no cruelty, no abomination that the mind of man can conceive which the German has not perpetrated, is not perpetrating, and will not perpetrate if he is allowed to go on.
These horrors and perversions were not invented by him on the spur of the moment. They were arranged beforehand. Their outlines are laid down in the German war book. They are part of the system in which Germany has been scientifically trained. It is the essence of that system to make such a hell of countries where their armies set foot that any terms she may offer will seem like heaven to the people whose bodies she has defiled and whose minds she has broken of set purpose and intention.
Rudyard Kipling,at Southport, England, June, 1915.
In June the Germans once more turned to the East and the North-East Coast. On June 4, 1915, there was a raid, doing some slight damage; and two days later there was another, by far the most serious of any that had yet happened. The raiders succeeded in reaching a town on the East Coast during the night and bombed it at their leisure. One large drapery house was struck and was completely wrecked, the entire building—a somewhat old one—collapsing. Some working-class streets were very badly damaged, a number of houses destroyed, and many people injured. It was one of the peculiarities of this raid that, unlike most of the others, all the people injured were struck while indoors. The total casualties here were twenty-four killed, about sixty seriously injured, and a larger number slightly injured.
Times History of the War.
“He was a brave ‘Zepp,’ he had already killed over one hundred women and children”
The outrage (see preceding page) was quickly avenged by a young British naval airman, Flight Sub-Lieut. R. A. J. Warneford, in one of the most brilliant aerial exploits of the war.
On the morning of June 7 at 3a.m.he encountered a Zeppelin returning from the coast of Flanders to Ghent, and chased it, mounting above it and sailing over it at a height of 6,000 feet. Zeppelin and aeroplane exchanged shots, and when the Zeppelin was between one and two hundred feet immediately below him he dropped six bombs on it. One bomb hit the Zeppelin fairly, causing a terrific explosion, and setting the airship on fire from end to end. Warneford’s aeroplane was caught by the force of the explosion and turned upside down, but he succeeded in righting it before it touched the ground. He was forced to alight within the German lines. Nevertheless he restarted his engine, though not without great difficulty, and in due course returned to his station without damage. Only the framework of the Zeppelin was left, the crew being all burned or mangled, and the body of the machine being completely destroyed.
Times History of the War.
Moses II. leads his chosen people throughthe channel to the promised (Eng.) land
From a military or political or economic point of view one should look at the matter (the capture of Calais) with the eyes of Great Britain and define the Calais idea as a possibility for a seafaring continental power to conduct a war against Great Britain from the continental coast channel and with all military resources while holding open communication between the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea.
Count von Reventlow.June, 1915.
“I have carried out everything in accordance with our compact at Vereeniging”
On July 9, 1915, a despatch from General Botha was published stating that he had brought his campaign in South-West Africa to a triumphant close, and had received the unconditional surrender of Governor Sietz and the German forces of 3,500 men. The campaign, commencing in February, had lasted five months. The patriotic devotion of General Botha and the loyalty of the great majority of the Dutch people to the cause of the British Empire were a magnificent vindication of the Liberal Cabinet’s policy of reconciliation after the close of the South African war.
The self-governing Colonies in the British Empire have at their disposal a ‘militia,’ which is sometimes only a process of formation. They can be completely ignored so far as concerns any European theatre of war.
Von Bernhardi,1911.
Our thoughts naturally turn to the splendid efforts of the Oversea Dominions and India, who, from the earliest days of the war, have ranged themselves side by side with the Mother Country. The prepared armed forces of India were the first to take the field, closely followed by the gallant Canadians—who are now fighting alongside their British and French comrades in Flanders. In the Dardanelles the Australians and New Zealanders—combined with the same elements, have already accomplished a feat of arms of almost unexampled brilliancy. In each of these great Dominions new and large contingents are being prepared, while South Africa, not content with the successful conclusion of the arduous campaign in South-West Africa, is now offering large forces to engage the enemy in the main theatre of war.
Lord Kitchener,Guildhall speech, July 9, 1915.
There are now in training or in the field 350,000 troops of the overseas dominions alone, while this country, on estimate, has at least 2,775,000 men in the field or in training.
Sir Gilbert Parker,July, 1915.
Rightly or wrongly, we have in the past devoted our energies and our intelligence, not to preparations for war, but to that social progress which makes for the happiness and contentment of the mass of our people. And this, no doubt, is the reason why other nations imagine that we, as a nation of shopkeepers, are too indolent and apathetic to fight for and maintain these priceless liberties won by the men who laid the foundation of our vast empire.
But they are entirely mistaken in forming any such estimate of the temperament or determination of our people. Great Britain hates war, and no nation enters more reluctantly upon its horrible and devastating operations; but at the same time no nation, when it is driven to war by the machinations of its foes who desire to filch from it or from its co-champions of liberty any portion of their inherited freedom, is more resolved to see the matter through, at whatever cost, to a successful issue.
Sir Edward Carson,British Attorney-General.Statement on first twelve months of war.
The only peace which the republic can accept is that which guarantees the security of Europe and which will permit us to breathe and to live and to work to reconstruct our dismembered country and repair our ruins, a peace which will effectively protect us against any offensive return of the Germanic ambitions.
The present generations are accountable for France to posterity. They will not permit the profanation of the trust which their ancestors confided to their charge. France is determined to conquer; she will conquer.
President of the French Republic.From speech on the conclusion of thefirst year of war.
German Oculist, trying on spectacles:“What do you read now?”Dutchman: “Deutschland über Alles.”German Oculist: “That is right: thatpair exactly suits you.”
“Oranje Boven” is the Dutch cry which answers to the German “Deutschland über Alles.”
The cartoons reproduced upon the opposite and following pages are selected examples of the series drawn for and published in “The Amsterdam Telegraaf,” at the time when Holland was invaded by an army of spies and secret agents who carried on a vast system of pro-German propaganda. These cartoons represent Raemaekers’ reply.
It was during the publication of these pictures that a price was set upon his head by the German Government, and he was charged by the Dutch Government, at the instance of the representatives of the Central Powers with “endangering the neutrality of Holland,” a form of persecution which had an effect quite opposite to that intended, as it resulted only in drawing the attention of the Allies and other Neutrals to the power and significance of Raemaekers’ cartoons, which was followed by a much wider distribution of his work.
“Madam, your soldiers will get splendid Prussian uniforms and Your Majesty will have a place of honour in the retinue of the Kaiser”
The Driver: “You are a worthy Dutchman. He who lies in that grave was a foolish idealist”
“At least we shall get posts as gamekeepers when Germany takes us after the war”
German Eagle: “Come along, Dutch chicken, we will easily arrange an agreement.”
The Dutch chicken: “Yes, in your stomach.”
“I shall have to swallow you up if only to prevent those English taking your Colonies”
Germany’s idea of what it would make of it for Holland