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July 6, 1918.] THE ENEMY AT THE GATE. As we are now aware, the enterprising Hun thickly sowed Pacific waterways with extremely powerful mines, and there is no chapter in the lexicon of British 'naval invention more important than that showing the genius expended on the ultimate destruction of all mines in all waters. (Observer, 20 September 1919)
September 28,; 1918.] SAINT WILLIAM CRIES "PEACE." "When the devil was sick a saiint would be; But when the devil was well the devil a saint was he." Wilhelm was nearing his destiny and showed patches of extraordinary saiatliness at the period. The pastors of Germany, who had hitherto counselled rapine, bk>od, the murder of infants, and the destruction of women, were in every German church now preaching the beauty of true brotherhood. Of course, the bayonet was at the neck of Wilhelm, and he immediately removed the shining gauntlets of war and folded his bare hands in saintly piety. (Observer, 20 September 1919)
December 7, 1918.] OUT! One of those bull-dog cartoons that so appealed to the popular imagination. You will see that the kuri is the same animal previously depicted in an anxious state of mind, fearing that the rat would not emerge. He emerged in a disgustingly tame manner. The Germans forever said that its fleet was always wearing out its bottom on the ocean looking for the Craven Bull and never finding him. It found him leading gigantic German Dreadnoughts home to Britain with a little terrier ship ahead. (Observer, 20 September 1919)
February 22, 1919.] BILL'S MANDATE���THE WAR BABY. The mandate given to New Zealand over Samoa was greatly discussed when the terms of the armistice were new. New Zealand's responsibility as a small new nation grew with this new infant, and she had a special interest in the infants, as she occupied Samoa at the outbreak of war under orders from the British High Command. (Observer, 20 September 1919)
May 24, 1919.] STUNNED. The incredible ferocity of the German Eagle, the unscrupulous villainy of the Prussian, and the preposterous claims of a nation prior to ultimate defeat, caused the Allies to impose conditions exceedingly severe. They were imposed so that under no circumstances in the next generation should Germany again threaten the peace of the world. (Observer, 20 September 1919)
June 28, 1919.] DER TAG! At this stage of " der Kreigspeil" Hans, the submarine boatman, would hardly come out at all because some naughty British sailor had invented a top. he dropped into the water so that Hans didn't get back home for dinner any more. Hans, however, if he were fortunate "enough not to die, was invariably saved by British rescue parties, who to the end of tlie war treated the German sailor as the man he certainly wasn't (Observer, 20 September 1919)