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RAEMAEKERS'
CARTOON
HISTORY OF THE WAR

Table of Contents

• The Peace Move
• "Are You Ready to Make Munitions for Germany?"
• Another Example of Kultur
• Canada on Vimy Ridge
• William: "I wonder how long my dear friend and Ally...."
• William: "Here's luck, Hindenburg."
• The Old Frenchman: "Our guns come nearer."
• Tanks
• The Slaying of the Fiery Dragons
• King Tino at Athens to his Brother-in-law William...."
• Mr. Lloyd George to Neutrals: "Don't Stand in our Way...."
• The Crown Prince Preaches to America
• "I am 'Operating' at, But Not Inside Your Gate...."
• The Super Anarchist
• Fritz: "This is No Longer Civilized War...."
• HOUP LA!!
• Brothers in Arms
• "Perhaps This One Will Kill my Boy on the Yser"
• Tirpitz: "Because we have sunk 30 or 40...."

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The New Kingdom of Poland

Belgian civilians are deported by the army....

The New Kingdom of Poland

The Eyes of the Army

"Do Not Miss Him This Time, Tino"

Scene in the Great Peace Pantomime.

After the Fall of Bukharest

The French Victory at Verdun

While They Talk Peace

The Peace Move (II)

Hurrah! "War on All Neutrals at Last"

The Convicts' Stripes

"Go on, William! A True Hohenzollern Never Gets Enough Blood"

Germany: "Till now you have left the fighting to me...."

The Rebirth of Russia

"We Bombarded the Fort of London"

William to Japan: "I will never again...."

The President's Handicap

Germany: "We have turned the richest lands...."

Attila: "You have burned and plundered the villages...."

For Holy Russia and Humanity!

The Two Giants

William to General von Fleck: "We must save these...."

Uncle Sam: "So we are only a dollar making people...."

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Because it Is thy War, it Is my War

"The Stars and Stripes In the Service of Humanity"

Proud to Fight

"According to Plan"

Welcome to Stockholm!

Austria: "Why won't you trust me, Little Red Riding Hood?"

Kultur V. Civilisation

American Soldier: "Remember we have plenty of lamp-posts for...."

The Socialist Bait For Russia

On Land and Water

"A Poison-gas Attack on New Russia"

A Fool's Paradise

The United States For Conscription

John Bull: "A hearty welcome! Come in, Mate."

Tommy: "Look here, Bill, here's a bit of old Hindenburg's line."

A Good Start

The Decision of the Seamen's and Firemen's Union

Germany's Peace Agents Caught In Their Own Trap

The Fall of the Mark

America's Choice

Old and New Glory

You Dared To Find Us Out!

Fraternizing on the Galician Front....

The Fall of the Child Slayer

At the World's Judgment Seat

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"We'll Give These Yankees a Taste of Our Steel"

"We are willing now to make peace...."

The Kaiser Has Ordered his People a Fire-eating Diet

"Dignity and Impudence," New Version

"Unresteicted" Piracy

William: "I say, Capelle, are you sure we have taken the right road?"

A Good Joke

"I hope, dear Holland, this explanation is all you want."

President Wilson: "Say! you are using false cards."

The Berlin-Bagdad Snake

Helping Hindenburg Home

Uncle Sam: "So you are going to sink my ships on sight, are you?"

Poisones Wells

The Outcast

"Still They Come"

Tommy: "You'll soon see the Stars and Stripes."

William to Herr Scheidemann: "The Turks believe I am a Mahomedan...."

Germany's War Aims

The Ober-Hof-Socialist: "Yes! we must make a peace without...."

"No war or at the worst only a sham war was all that America could do...."

Air Raid On London

Ferdinand: "I am much too popular to be treated like Tino...."

Reprisals

A Disguise That Was Too Thin

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The New St. George

German "Militarist" Socialism

The Annexation Of America

A Rehearsal

At The Holland Frontier

Restitution And Reparation

"Something's Wrong. She Doesn't Seem To Inspire Confidence"

"When I Was A Child, It Was You Who Saved Me"

For Merit

Copyright, 1919, by
The Century Co.

VOLUME THREE

THE PEACE MOVE

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BERLIN, AUGUST 6, 1914

I draw the sword that with God's help I have kept all these years in the scabbard. I have drawn the sword which without victory and without honor I cannot sheath again. All of you will see to it that only in honor is it returned to the scabbard. You are my guaranty that I can dictate peace to my enemies.

The Kaiser to his Guards at Potsdam,
August, 1914.

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"ARE YOU READY TO MAKE MUNITIONS FOR GERMANY?"

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The first official charges on the subject were issued on November 9 at Havre by Baron Beyens, Belgian Foreign Minister, as follows:

"The German Government is rounding up in large numbers in the towns and villages of occupied Belgium, such as Alost, Ghent, Bruges, Courtrai, and Mons,—to name only the first to be victims of the measures,—all men fit to bear arms, rich and poor, irrespective of class, whether employed or unemployed, hunchbacks, cripples, and one-armed men alone are excepted. These men are torn in thousands from their families; fifteen thousand from Flanders alone are sent God knows where. Whole trainloads are seen going east and south."

CARDINAL MERCIER REPLIES

Cardinal Mercier, Primate of Belgium, in behalf of the Belgian bishops, issued a proclamation of protest on November 7, addressed to the neutral nations and appealing for their aid in opposing the proceeding. His protest is in these terms:

"The military authorities are daily deporting thousands of inoffensive citizens in order to set them to forced labor.

"As early as October 19 we sent a protest to the governor-general, a copy of which was also sent to the representatives of the Holy See in Brussels, Spain, the United States, and the Netherlands. The governor-general, in reply, refused to take any steps."

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ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF KULTUR

Fritz: "We must see if there is any money or jewelry in these coffins before we retire."

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At Cartigny the Germans opened five vaults, each with a chapel above it, by tearing apart the stones. They did the same thing at Ronsoy, at Becquincourt, at Dompierre, at Bouvincourt, and at Herbecourt. At Nurly, Roisel, Bernes, they even broke into coffins. In the enclosed ground serving as a private cemetery for the Rohan family at Manancourt they buried a great number of their soldiers, and, an inconceivable thing, established a kitchen in the interior of the Rohan mausoleums and latrines among their family tombs. In the crypt, where indescribable disorder reigns, almost all the compartments are empty. A child's coffin, taken from one of them, was stripped of its lead. A heavy leaden casket, half drawn from another compartment, bears on its lid marks of a chisel. A block of marble, in which is seen a small excavation, has been thrown among the débris; it bears the inscription: "Here rests the heart of Mme. Amelie de Musnier de Folleville, Countess of Boissy, who died at Paris, July 16, 1830, at the age of thirty-two years and ten months."

French Official Report of German
Barbarities in France, June 1, 1916.

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CANADA ON VIMY RIDGE

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The capture of two thousand prisoners by the Canadians is not surprising, as the whole ridge was honeycombed with dugouts, in which the Germans sheltered themselves.

Up to the present moment the great offensive had been held up just at the point below the Canadian lines, which fact caused Vimy Ridge to be styled the "hinge" of the enemy's retreat from the Somme, and the Canadians have been very impatient for the "hinge" to move.

Toronto Mail, August 10, 1916.

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William: I wonder how long my dear friend and Ally will be able to stand this.

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The offensive began on June 4, and the total captures to August 12 were as follows:

Prisoners Officers 7,757 Men 350,845 Guns 405 Machine-guns 1,326 Bomb-throwers 338 Caissons 292

Russian Official, August 12, 1916.

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William: "Here's luck, Hindenburg."
Hindenburg: "Where?"

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The kaiser has dismissed General von Falkenhayn, chief of the general staff, and has appointed Field-Marshal von Hindenburg chief of the general staff and General von Ludendorff first quartermaster-general.

Berlin Official Telegram, August 30, 1916.

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The Old Frenchman: "Our guns come nearer."

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12:30 a.m. In coöperation with the French on our immediate right we attacked the enemy at several points.

We have captured part of Ginchy and the whole of Guillemont. Our front now runs some five hundred yards east of Guillemont from Ginchy to near Falfemont Farm.

On the east side of Mouquet Farm we have also gained ground.

We have captured several hundred prisoners.

Between our right and the Somme the French have made substantial progress and captured a considerable number of prisoners.

Fighting continues.

Our aircraft did most useful work in coöperating with the artillery and infantry.

The enemy's aëroplanes, which made desperate attempts to interfere, were successfully engaged in many aërial fights and driven off with a loss of three machines destroyed and at least four others damaged, while we lost three.

12:10 p.m. Last night was generally quiet.

Fighting is in progress this morning near Mouquet Farm, south of Thiepval, and on the banks of the Ancre; also on our right about Falfemont Farm. We have gained ground.

Last night we carried out a successful raid on the enemy's trenches north of Monchy, capturing prisoners.

British Official, September 5, 1916.

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TANKS

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At 6:20 a.m. on September 15, 1916, the infantry assault commenced, and at the same moment the bombardment became intense. Our new heavily armored cars, known as "tanks," now brought into action for the first time, successfully coöperated with the infantry, and, coming as a surprise to the enemy rank and file, gave valuable help in breaking down their resistance.

The advance met with immediate success on almost the whole of the front attacked. At 8:40 a.m. "tanks" were seen to be entering Flers, followed by large numbers of troops. Fighting continued in Flers for some time, but by 10 a.m. our troops had reached the north side of the village, and by midday had occupied the enemy's trenches for some distance beyond.

British Official, September 15, 1916.