A British ship sunk under its own flag, John Bull, personification of Great Britain, calls for a false flag with which to disguise his ships even as he is being dragged beneath the surface by German mermen — submariners with armbands in the colors of the German flag. Personifications of neutral nations holding their flags include Uncle Sam of the USA, a Nederlander, and representatives of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. In the distance, the British Isles have been hit, bombed by a Zeppelin or shelled by a sea battery.
A flag! A flag! A kingdom for a flag! 1915Rule, Britannia, Rule the Waves!Logo: A tree behind a picket fence(?); 1915Reverse:Union Postale Universelle.Carte PostaleWeltpostverein - Postkarte.
"A British ship sunk under its own flag, John Bull, personification of Great Britain, calls for a false flag with which to disguise his ships even as he is being dragged beneath the surface by German mermen — submariners with armbands in the colors of the German flag. Personifications of neutral nations holding their flags include Uncle Sam of the USA, a Nederlander, and representatives of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. In the distance, the British Isles have been hit, bombed by a Zeppelin or shelled by a sea battery."
Saturday, February 12, 1916
Rule Britannia, flag, false flagging, Britannia Rules the Waves, 1915, neutral flag, submarine, merman, mermen, John Bull, my kingdom for a flag, 1916-02-12, false flag
Zeppelin, Great Britain
