Punch | March 1915

Abdul! I would that I had shared your plight, Or Europe seen my heels,
Before the hour when Allah bound me tight To WILLIAM'S chariot-wheels! 
WILLIAM O' THE WISP


Mavi Boncuk | 


March, 1915.


A new and possibly momentous chapter has opened in the history of the War by the attempt to force the Dardanelles. At the end of February the Allied Fleet bombarded the forts at the entrance, and landed a party of bluejackets. Since then these naval operations have been resumed, and our new crack battleship Queen Elizabeth has joined in the attack. We have not got through the Narrows, and some sceptical critics are asking what we should do if we got through to Constantinople, without a land force. It is a great scheme, if it comes off; and the "only begetter" of it, if report is true, is Mr. Winston Churchill, the strategist of the Antwerp expedition, who now aspires to be the Dardanelson of our age. Anyhow, the Sultan, lured on by the Imperial William o' the Wisp, is already capable of envying even his predecessor:






 Source : Mr. PUNCH'S HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR 1919