Punch | End is Near 1917

Mavi Boncuk | 
March, 1917. With the end of Tsardom in Russia, the fall of Baghdad, and the strategic retreat of Hindenburg on the Western front, all crowded into one month, March fully maintains its reputation for making history at the expense of Caesars and Kaisers.


ALSO RAN WILHELM: "Are you luring them on, like me?" MEHMED: "I'm afraid I am!" 

November, 1917. The best and the worst news comes from the outlying fronts. Allenby's triumphant advance is unchecked in Palestine. Gaza has fallen. The British are in Jaffa. Jerusalem is threatened. 


A GREAT INCENTIVE MEHMED (reading dispatch from the All-Highest): "Defend Jerusalem at all costs for my sake. I was once there myself."

December, 1917. It seems useless to attempt to cope with the staggering multiplicity of events crowded into the last few weeks. Jerusalem captured in this last crusade, which realises the dream of Coeur de LionMeanwhile it has not yet been decided in Berlin what the Sultan of Turkey thinks of the capture of Jerusalem.