Bundles of Four
Thiscartoon is horribly suggestive of Hun utilitarian methods! I am told by an eminent chemist that six pounds of glycerine can be extracted from the corpse of a fairly well nourished Hun, and I can well believe that such an opportunity for replenishing the diminishing stocks of a much needed commodity is not neglected by the Great General Staff.
Bundles of Four!
And why not, from the Hun point of view?
They have scrapped sentiment, together with humanity. What isgun-fodderto the Scourge of God? These unfortunates, when alive, were driven ruthlessly to inevitable slaughter. They are sent as ruthlessly to the blast furnaces. One million dead men are resolved into six million pounds of glycerine. Thus the Happy Fatherland is served.
One wonders whether the statisticians of the Central Powers have yet computed what a million of dead Huns represents in cash. A soldier capable of serving his country in the field must be worth at least fifty pounds sterling per annum to that country. Let us say that each dead man represents a capitalisation of one thousand pounds. We have then, roughly, a loss of one thousand million pounds, leaving out the totally and partially disabled.
What a handicap when they begin, after the war, the economic struggle for supremacy!
Time was when the enemy losses sent a shiver down our spinal columns. That time—thanks to Hun methods—has passed.
HORACE ANNESLEY VACHELL
TO THE CREMATORIUMGerman Letter: “We send them in bundles of four.”
TO THE CREMATORIUMGerman Letter: “We send them in bundles of four.”
TO THE CREMATORIUM
German Letter: “We send them in bundles of four.”