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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! 1915
Rule, Britannia, Rule the Waves!
Logo: A tree behind a picket fence(?); 1915
Reverse:
Union Postale Universelle.
Carte Postale
Weltpostverein - Postkarte. |
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 |
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Postcard from a painting by W. Partke of a village in the Pripet Marshes in Russia dated February 14, 1916. An Hungarian officer wrote of the Marshes, 'almost half of the territory is covered by wet, impassable, and uncultivated forest, wooded territory, most of it useless, bushy, and impenetrable. The ground itself is divided into different kinds of marshy lands, impassable muddy districts, immense weedy and grassy territories, also regions covered by some kind of more solid grassy substance, and other thousands and thousands of acres of land perpetually under water.' The card is field postmarked on April 9, 1917 by Minenwerfer (trench mortar) Company 282. |
Dorf in den Pripetsümpfen
W. Partke
14.II.1916.
Village in the Pripet Marshes
W. Partke
February 14, 1916 |
Russia, Pripet Marshes, 1916, February, 1916-02-14, Minenwerfer |
