Heroic Belgium, crushed beneath the gross bulk of bloated Junkerdom, still held his sword in hand, ready to strike again for freedom. [Illustration: It was a glorious Victory.] German soldiers whose hands were red with the blood of Belgian mothers, posed for official photographs to be used for American propaganda, showing them feeding little Belgian children. [Illustration: One of those touching pictures of a German soldier feeding little Belgium.] After the campaigns of Lemberg and Przemysl, the Kaiser intimated to Washington that the War was about over; and it would be well, in the interests of peace, to FORGET THE "LUSITANIA." [Illustration: "Don't you see the war is nearly over?--Forget the Lusitania!"] Count Von Bernstorff continued to "play horse" with Uncle Sam, while Dumba, Von Papen and Boy-Ed looked on with ill-concealed contempt at "the idiotic Yankees." [Illustration: Activities of a German diplomatist in America.] In contrast to the violation of our hospitality by Counts Von Bernstorff and Dumba in America, Brand Whitlock, our ambassador in Belgium, spent his time in relieving the distress in that distracted country. [Illustration: Activities of an American diplomatist in Europe.] Mr. Bryan, in the disguise of a pacifist, was consciously or unconsciously playing the role assigned him by the Imperial German Embassy at Washington. [Illustration: A good deal like the "Goose-Step."] Ambassador Dumba, having accumulated sufficient rope, hanged himself at last. His hat as well as his passports were handed him by the President. [Illustration: The sad case of Mr. Dumba.] One bomb plot succeeded another; leaving a slimy trail that always led back to the German Embassy at Washington. [Illustration: Just whose pet snake is this?] Before a wrecked Cathedral window in France, from which the Mother and Child still looked down in silent protest, a young German recruit might well ask, "Is God still with us?" [Illustration: Is God still with us?] In September, 1915, the Count Von Bernstorff extended the olive branch to the Government of the United States, while Von Tirpitz backed him up with a gun. [Illustration: Once more the Olive Branch.] Von Bethmann-Hollweg was urged by the German Embassy in Washington to patch up any old assurances and send them over as Uncle Sam was becoming extremely restless. [Illustration: Assurances by the waste-basket full.] Certain that Verdun would fall, the Kaiser had predicted that the war would end in October, 1915. As September closed, the Crown Prince's army was being shot to pieces. [Illustration: "Yes, father, I remember you said the war would end in October."] It looked as though the German Army was spread over too much territory--faced too many fronts to be effective! [Illustration: Spraddled.]