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“The Daily Graphic”


SPECIAL WAR CARTOONS

No. 1


1ᴰ.

[Illustration: THE BULL DOG BREED]




[Illustration: TOO MUCH FOR THE LION.]


[Illustration: AN INTERNATIONAL DANGER!

John Bull: “There’s only one way to deal with a mad dog.”]


[Illustration: THE CURE

Dame Europa: “There’s nothing like a poultice or two for a swelled
head, William.”]


[Illustration: PRICKING THE BUBBLE.]


[Illustration: A VOICE FROM THE PAST.

Shade of Napoleon: “Have a care! Ambition was my downfall!”]


[Illustration: THE WORM WILL TURN

H.I.M.: “It’s just occurred to me that there’ll be trouble when he does
discover the truth!”]


[Illustration: THE MISFIT.]


[Illustration: Austria: “That settles it! Now I shall be under the
painful necessity of punishing you.”]


[Illustration: EUROPE’S DANGER: THE “DISPOSITION” OF GERMANY.]


[Illustration: “HE LAUGHS LONGEST WHO LAUGHS LAST.”]


[Illustration: Europa: “You had better read this over again; you seem
to have forgotten it!”

Kaiser Wilhelm: “That, Madame, is merely another ‘scrap of paper,’ as
my friend Von Bethmann-Hollweg would say!”]


[Illustration: THE STEPPING STONES

“The violation of Belgium, the attack on France, the defence against
Russia, are only steps by the way. Germany’s real objective, as she has
always told us, is England--England’s wealth, trade, and world-wide
possessions.”--Mr. Rudyard Kipling, at Brighton.]


[Illustration: THE KAISER’S DREAM: THE WORLD IN CHAINS.]


[Illustration: THE HELIGOLAND “BIGHT.”]


[Illustration: WONDERS WILL NEVER CEASE]


[Illustration: “A TERRIBLE RESPONSIBILITY”]


[Illustration: British Lion (on closer scrutiny): “Bless me!--I’ve been
under the impression that you were an eagle!”]


[Illustration: UNREASONABLE

German Admiral: “It’s all very well to say ‘Come out and fight.’ But
we’ve lost count of the mines.”]


[Illustration: DIFFERENT IDEALS

Indignant Teuton: “‘British superiority,’ Bah!--Don’t tell me such
things. Why, look at that placard!”]


[Illustration: THE UNEXPECTED

The “Road-Hog of Europe”: “This looks all very well up to a certain
point, but it doesn’t explain what to do in case of a breakdown.” (With
acknowledgments to Mr. Harry Tate in “Motoring.”)]


[Illustration: THE RUSSIAN STEAM-ROLLER]


[Illustration: A BARE POSSIBILITY

German Eagle: “Excuse me, I suppose you haven’t seen my two-headed
friend anywhere about, have you?”]


[Illustration: THE TIRPITZ TOUCH

Cultured Skipper: “And in the morning there will be Another German
victor-ee!”]


Printed and Published by the Proprietors, Messrs. H. R. Baines & Co.,
Ltd., at Tallis House, Whitefriars, London, E.C.




Transcriber’s note-


The title has been changed from SPECIAL WAR CARTOONS to
SPECIAL WAR CARTOONS No. 1 to conform to the series convention.
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