Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War Volume II Part 4

On October 7th, 1915, an army of 400,000 Austrians, Hungarians and Germans forced the Danube and commenced the great drive on Serbia; by the 10th the invaders had captured Belgrade. At the same moment the Bulgarians in great force attacked the Serbians on their right flank and by the 28th joined forces with the Teutonic troops.

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_THE KAISER COUNTS THE BAG_

On October 13, 1915, about 9:30 at night, fire opened from the skies on the centre of London. That same evening parts of the Eastern Counties were attacked. In London alone 32 were killed and 95 injured, and the total casualties for the whole area of the raid that night were 56 killed and 113 wounded. A number of houses were damaged, and several fires started. Most of the victims were ordinary working folk, doing their ordinary work. Motor omnibus conductors died in the street, a messenger boy was killed when delivering a message, a potman died at his work, a caterer was killed while returning from a Masonic lodge, a carman's daughter was injured in the legs and lingered until the next morning, a waitress was done to death while returning from a Young Women's Guild, and so on.

_Times History of the War._

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"_THE ENTRY INTO CONSTANTINOPLE_"

_The Kaiser_: "_Who is this man?_"

The German Emperor will spend Christmas in Constantinople at the head of his victorious troops.

_The Pesti-Napols, Budapest.

October, 1915._

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_GO TO YOUR HEREDITARY ENEMY, BULGARIA_

It must not be forgotten that Greece is an independent nation that disposes of its fate in full sovereignty. The Austro-German attack on Serbia releases Greece at least from the obligation of armed intervention, and independent of that attack it is materially impossible for Serbia to give Greece the support of 150,000 men stipulated in the treaty in case of war with Bulgaria, the Entente powers have not furnished a contingent equivalent.

_Grecian Note of October 26, 1915._

I deplored the fact that Serbia is being left to be crushed by Bulgaria, Greece's hereditary enemy, who will not scruple later to fall on Greece herself.

_From speech of_ VENIZELOS _before dissolution of his Government._ _November 3, 1915._

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"_THEY BOWED THE KNEE BEFORE HIM_"

_The extermination of Armenian Christians, Autumn of 1915_

These atrocities had as their deliberate object the extermination of the Armenian race, and it is not difficult to a.s.sess the guilt. The guilt lay with the Young Turkish Government at Constantinople and with the local officials who acted in collusion with them. But there was a greater criminal even than the Young Turkish Government, for behind Turkey stood the country that was Turkey's ally and the dominant partner in the policy she pursued. There was a considerable variation in the conduct of individual Germans in Turkey. The German missionaries seem to have stood laudably by their principles, and the German Vice-Consul at Erzerum is said to have sent the exiles relief. But in the Aleppo province and Cilicia the German officials, both military and civil, threw themselves actively into the Young Turks' scheme; at Moush and Van German officers are believed to have partic.i.p.ated directly in the slaughter, and at Erzerum they are reported to have taken their share of the Armenian girls.

_Times History of the War._

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_DRIVEN FROM THE TEMPLE OF HUMANITY_

If the Porte considers it necessary that Armenian insurrections can either go on or should be crushed so as to exclude all possibility of their repet.i.tion, then there is no murder and no atrocity, but simply measures of a justifiable and a necessary kind.

COUNT VON REVENTLOW.

I was asked last night to define German militarism, and there is the definition (above) in the devilish spirit of such a judgment and excuse for the cowardly ma.s.sacre of 800,000 human beings, not all men, but thousands of women and children.

T. P. O'CONNOR, M.P.

_House of Commons, London, November 16, 1915._

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_THE OLD SERB_

"_Fighting with the Bulgarians against the Turk I lost my brothers, my sons fell fighting with the Greeks against Bulgaria, but only when the Germans came were my wife and children killed._"