Mr. Punch's history of the great war.

  • Charles Larcom Graves
Date:
1919
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Mr. Punch's history of the great war. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    also reported that the Kaiser has bestowed an Iron Cross on a learned pig—one of a very numerous class. May, J975. WE often think that we must have got to the end of Geiman frightfulness,” only to have our illusions promptly shattered by some fresh and amazing explosion of calculated ferocity. Last month it was poison gas- now it is the sinking of the Lusitania. Yet Mr. Punch had read the omens some seven and a half years ago, when the records established by that liner had created a jealousy in Ger- AN OMEN OF 1908 Reproduced from “ Christmas Cards for Celebrities,” in Mr. Punch's Almanack, of that year. many which the Kaiser and his agents have now ap¬ peased, but at what a cost! The House of Commons is an odd place, unique in its char¬ acteristics. Looking round the benches when it reas¬ sembled on May 10th, and noting the tone and purport of the inquiries addressed to the First Lord, one might well suppose that nothing re¬ markable had happened since Parliament adjourned. The questions were numerous but all practical, and as unemo¬ tional as if they referred to outrages by a newly-dis¬ covered race of fiends in human shape peopling Mars or Saturn. The First Lord, equally undemonstrative, an¬ nounced that the Board of Trade have ordered an in¬ quiry into the circumstances