M. ZAIMIS, _June 13, 1917._ [Illustration] _REPRISALS_ _The Only Answer_ * * * * * The important announcement that the City will be warned in future when an air raid is threatened was made on Sunday by the Lord Mayor, at a meeting at the London Opera House, called to demand reprisals for air raids. A resolution calling on the Government to undertake air reprisals on German towns and cities was passed, amidst great cheering. _London, June 19, 1917._ [Illustration] _A DISGUISE THAT WAS TOO THIN_ _Bethmann-Hollweg: "That Socialist's disguise is no good, All Highest. Let's try another clerical peace trick."_ * * * * * All over the world attempts were made to create distrust of German Social Democracy. We were described as being really war agitators, obedient servants of German Imperialism. The memorandum on our peace work which we delivered at Stockholm will, we hope, destroy many misunderstandings and many prejudices which are based on them. Of course the misstatements and slanders have already begun again. HERR SCHEIDEMANN, _Stockholm, June 29, 1917._ [Illustration] _Dr. Michaelis: "The concentration of the Russian Army compelled Germany to seize the sword. There was no choice left to us."_ * * * * * We must keep before our eyes daily the events of three years ago, which are fixed in history and show that we were forced into war by Russia's secret mobilization, which was the great danger for Germany. To have participated in a conference while the Russian mobilization proceeded would have been political suicide. HERR MICHAELIS, _Berlin, July 27, 1917._ [Illustration] _THE NEW ST. GEORGE_ _"Give us the means and we will slay this German dragon that threatens our towns, our women, and children."_ * * * * * Southend was bombed by about a dozen German aeroplanes this evening while the place was full of holiday-makers. The attack lasted a quarter of an hour and resulted in the death of twenty-three people, the majority of whom were women and children. About forty people were injured. One of the victims was a little girl, who was terribly mangled, and another was a woman, who was also badly mutilated. _Times, August 17, 1917._ [Illustration] _GERMAN "MILITARIST" SOCIALISM_ * * * * * Does not the cartoonist Raemaekers fail in this cartoon? The artist Raemaekers is inspired--here as always. But does the cartoonist succeed this time in burning the right idea, his idea, into the reader's brain? Here is the real Kaiser and here are real German workingmen. It is they who are carrying the burden of Kaiserism. All this is convincing. But do not other workingmen in other countries carry burdens?