E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Martin Mayer, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 43219-h.htm or 43219-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/43219/pg43219-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/43219/43219-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/raemaekerscartoo03raemuoft Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Small capitals were converted to ALL CAPITALS. RAEMAEKERS' CARTOON HISTORY OF THE WAR [Illustration: (signed) Louis Raemaekers] RAEMAEKERS' CARTOON HISTORY OF THE WAR Compiled by J. Murray Allison Editor of _Raemaekers' Cartoons_, _Kultur in Cartoons_, _The Century Edition de Luxe Raemaekers' Cartoons_, _etc._ VOLUME THREE The Third Twelve Months of War New York The Century Co. 1919 Copyright, 1919, by The Century Co. VOLUME THREE _THE PEACE MOVE_ * * * * * BERLIN, AUGUST 6, 1914 (The Berlin papers declared that the population, mad with joy, drank champagne and danced in the streets.) I draw the sword that with God's help I have kept all these years in the scabbard. I have drawn the sword which without victory and without honor I cannot sheath again. All of you will see to it that only in honor is it returned to the scabbard. _You are my guaranty that I can dictate peace to my enemies._ _The_ KAISER _to his Guards at Potsdam_, _August, 1914_. [Illustration] _"ARE YOU READY TO MAKE MUNITIONS FOR GERMANY?"_ * * * * * The first official charges on the subject were issued on November 9 at Havre by Baron Beyens, Belgian Foreign Minister, as follows: "The German Government is rounding up in large numbers in the towns and villages of occupied Belgium, such as Alost, Ghent, Bruges, Courtrai, and Mons,--to name only the first to be victims of the measures,--all men fit to bear arms, rich and poor, irrespective of class, whether employed or unemployed, hunchbacks, cripples, and one-armed men alone are excepted. These men are torn in thousands from their families; fifteen thousand from Flanders alone are sent God knows where. Whole trainloads are seen going east and south." CARDINAL MERCIER REPLIES Cardinal Mercier, Primate of Belgium, in behalf of the Belgian bishops, issued a proclamation of protest on November 7, addressed to the neutral nations and appealing for their aid in opposing the proceeding. His protest is in these terms: "The military authorities are daily deporting thousands of inoffensive citizens in order to set them to forced labor.