Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War Volume I Part 8

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_RHEIMS--WAR AND CHRIST_

The commonest, ugliest stone put to mark the burial-place of a German grenadier is a more glorious and venerable monument than all the cathedrals of Europe put together.

GEN. VON DISFURTH _In Hamburger Nachrichten._

Reduce to ashes the basilica of Rheims where Klodovig was anointed, where that Empire of Franks was born--the false brothers of the n.o.ble Teutons; burn that cathedral!

_Written in the year 1814 by_ JEAN-JOSEPH GOERRES _in the "Rheinische Merkin."_

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LIQUID FIRE

In October, 1914, the headquarters of the second German army at St.

Quentin had issued an Order regulating the use of fire-squirts ejecting inflammable liquid. A special Corps of Pioneers, attachable to any unit which might need them, had been organized to handle this novel weapon.

The Order explained that the instrument could squirt a flame which would cause mortal injury and which, owing to the heat generated, would drive the enemy to a considerable distance. It was recommended particularly for street fighting.

_Times History of the War._

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_WE ARE ON OUR WAY TO CALAIS!_

In those days the German headquarters gave continuously the order, "To Calais, to Calais," and the staff considered no difficulties, calculated no sacrifices, in order to achieve success.

What these frenzied orders have cost in human lives history will tell later on.

"_The German Fury in Belgium_,"

By L. MOKVELD.

Then the "seventy fives" were brought up at a gallop and poured a hail of sh.e.l.l at the demoralized German infantry wading frantically through the water towards the ca.n.a.l. Rifles and machine guns joined the work of destruction, and the placid lake between the railway and ca.n.a.l was soon dotted with drowning Germans fallen from the demoralized crowds struggling to reach a haven of safety over the bridges of St. Georges, Schoorbakke, and Tervaete.

The crisis of the battle of the Yser was over; the Germans had made their great effort and had failed.

_The Times History of the War._ _Battle of the Yser. October, 1914._

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_WRITE IT DOWN, SCHOOLMASTER_

_William: "Write it down, Schoolmaster. Monday shall be Copper Day; Tuesday, Potato Day; Wednesday, Leather Day; Thursday, Gold Day; Friday, Rubber Day; Sat.u.r.day, no Dinner Day, and Sunday, Hate Day!"_

Take you the folk of the Earth in pay, With bars of gold your ramparts lay, Bedeck the ocean with bow on bow, Ye reckon well, but not well enough now, French and Russian, they matter not, A blow for a blow, a shot for a shot, We fight the battle with bronze and steel, And the time that is coming Peace will seal, You we will hate with a lasting hate, We will never forego our hate, Hate by water and hate by land, Hate of the head and hate of the hand, Hate of the hammer and hate of the crown, Hate of seventy millions choking down, We love as one, we hate as one, We have one foe and one alone, ENGLAND!

_Hymn of Hate, by_ ERNST LISSAUER.

_Translation by_ BARBARA HENDERSON.

_New York Times, Oct., 1914._

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_BARBED WIRE_

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_THE SEA MINE_

Take the very first incident of the war, the mine laying by the _Konigin Luise_. Here was a vessel, which was obviously made ready with freshly charged mines some time before there was any question of a general European war, which was sent forth in time of peace, and which, on receipt of a wireless message, began to sp.a.w.n its h.e.l.lish cargo across the North Sea at points fifty miles from land in the track of all neutral merchant s.h.i.+pping. There was the keynote of German tactics struck at the first possible instant. So promiscuous was the effect that it was a mere chance which prevented the vessel which bore the German Amba.s.sador from being destroyed by a German mine. From first to last some hundreds of people have lost their lives on this tract of sea, some of them harmless British trawlers, but the greater number sailors of Danish and Dutch vessels pursuing their commerce as they had every right to do. It was the first move in a consistent policy of murder.

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE _In "The German War."_

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_HIS MASTER'S VOICE_

The _Vlaamsche Stem_ (_Flemish Voice_), a Flemish newspaper, was bought by the Germans, whereupon the whole of the staff resigned, as it no longer represented its t.i.tle.

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