(President Poincaré, in a bill, will ask for 400,000 recruits between 18 and 19 years old--Cable dispatch, September, 1915)] [Illustration: HONEY (The Germans and Austrians recapture Peremysl, September, 1915)] [Illustration: THE GOOSE-STEP] [Illustration: BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA] [Illustration: ALWAYS SURE TO REPORT (German admiralty in doubt as to sinking of ships, as submarines have not yet reported.--Cable dispatch)] [Illustration: HOISTING IT AGAIN] [Illustration: MÜNCHAUSEN] [Illustration: TOO LATE AGAIN] [Illustration: FORCING THE DARDANELLES--A NIGHTMARE] [Illustration: “CLOSE UP THESE FACTORIES! SHERMAN WAS RIGHT. BE NEUTRAL!”] [Illustration: THEY AGREE ON ONE THING: “GUILTY!”] [Illustration: WILL HE GET HIM? (The Russian army escapes Hindenburg, winter, 1915)] [Illustration: EMPEROR WILLIAM INTRODUCES PEACE (A German peace rumor, September 3, 1915)] [Illustration: THE DUAL THRONE] [Illustration: HUNGER, THE PEACEMAKER] [Illustration: ANOTHER EVICTION (November, 1915)] [Illustration: ON WHEELS] [Illustration: A FRIGHTFUL JEST] [Illustration: THE INTERNATIONAL LAW COURT Belligerent: “Don’t make me laugh,--it’s inappropriate”] [Illustration: CHRISTMAS CHEER, 1915] [Illustration: BRINGING UP REINFORCEMENTS] [Illustration: ECCE HOMO! (January 9, 1916)] [Illustration: WASHING HIS HANDS (January 4, 1916)] [Illustration: THERE’S MANY A SLIP] [Illustration: “THESE DIED--THAT THESE MIGHT LIVE” (?)] [Illustration: THE PHANTOM CONVOY] [Illustration: THE MAN WITH THE SWORD “How will it be with kingdoms and with kings-- With those who shaped him to the thing he is. When this dumb terror shall reply to God After the silence of the centuries?” --_From_ “The Man with the Hoe,” _by Edwin Markham_ ] [Illustration: PRINTEMPS] [Illustration: THE AMERICAN WAR-DOG (The American-German crisis, January-March, 1916)] [Illustration: THE RIDDLES] [Illustration: “LE JOUR DE GLOIRE EST ARRIVÉ” (Verdun, March, 1916)] [Illustration: ON THE ROAD] [Illustration: THE HOSTAGE (Germany intends to keep conquered territory until the Allies seek peace.--Cable dispatch, March, 1916)] [Illustration: “WHY CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE? CAN’T YOU SEE WE’VE WON ON SEA AND LAND?” (Bethmann-Hollweg speaks in the Reichstag, March, 1916)] [Illustration: “NOW REMEMBER WHAT I TOLD YOU”] [Illustration: ATLAS] [Illustration: THE GERMAN SUBMARINE COMMANDER’S ACCURATE CONCEPTION OF THE BOAT HE BLEW UP (April 14, 1916)] [Illustration: “I CAN NOT TELL A LIE: HE DID IT WITH HIS LITTLE SUBMARINE”] [Illustration: AWAITING ORDERS--WHICH FLAG? (April 21, 1916, before the German reply had been received)] [Illustration: “IT IS NOT GERMANY’S FAULT IF PEACE IS STILL WITHHELD FROM THE NATIONS OF EUROPE” (From Germany’s reply to the American note on the submarine issue, May 8, 1916)] [Illustration: “GO EASY WITH THAT, JOHN!”] [Illustration: “UNCEASING WAS THE PLAY OF WRETCHED HANDS” --_Inferno_, Canto XIV]