SIR EDWARD CARSON, _British Attorney-General._ _Statement on first twelve months of war._ [Illustration] _L'AVENIR_ The only peace which the republic can accept is that which guarantees the security of Europe and which will permit us to breathe and to live and to work to reconstruct our dismembered country and repair our ruins, a peace which will effectively protect us against any offensive return of the Germanic ambitions. The present generations are accountable for France to posterity. They will not permit the profanation of the trust which their ancestors confided to their charge. France is determined to conquer; she will conquer. _President of the French Republic. From speech on the conclusion of the first year of war._ [Illustration] _ORANJE BOVEN_ _German Oculist, trying on spectacles:_ "_What do you read now?_" _Dutchman: "Deutschland über Alles."_ _German Oculist: "That is right: that pair exactly suits you."_ _"Oranje Boven" is the Dutch cry which answers to the German "Deutschland über Alles."_ The cartoons reproduced upon the opposite and following pages are selected examples of the series drawn for and published in "The Amsterdam Telegraaf," at the time when Holland was invaded by an army of spies and secret agents who carried on a vast system of pro-German propaganda. These cartoons represent Raemaekers' reply. It was during the publication of these pictures that a price was set upon his head by the German Government, and he was charged by the Dutch Government, at the instance of the representatives of the Central Powers with "endangering the neutrality of Holland," a form of persecution which had an effect quite opposite to that intended, as it resulted only in drawing the attention of the Allies and other Neutrals to the power and significance of Raemaekers' cartoons, which was followed by a much wider distribution of his work. [Illustration] _THE ENVOY TO HER MAJESTY_ "_Madam, your soldiers will get splendid Prussian uniforms and Your Majesty will have a place of honour in the retinue of the Kaiser_" [Illustration] _BETTER A LIVING DOG THAN A DEAD LION_ _The Driver: "You are a worthy Dutchman. He who lies in that grave was a foolish idealist"_ [Illustration] _THE DUTCH JUNKERS_ "_At least we shall get posts as gamekeepers when Germany takes us after the war_" [Illustration] _THE EAGLE IN THE HEN RUN_ _German Eagle: "Come along, Dutch chicken, we will easily arrange an agreement."_ _The Dutch chicken: "Yes, in your stomach."_ [Illustration] _OUR CANDID FRIEND_ "_I shall have to swallow you up if only to prevent those English taking your Colonies_" [Illustration] _THE FREE SEA_ _Germany's idea of what it would make of it for Holland_ [Illustration]