To the left, caricatures of a fallen King Albert of Belgium, Tsar Nicholas of Russia, President Poincare of France, generic (?) caricatures of an English man and a Japanese soldier, Kings Peter of Serbia, and Nikola of Montenegro engaging in a tug of war, the rope being held on the right by a German (in gray) and an Austro-Hungarian soldier. Between the teams and behind the rope stands the diminutive caped figure of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, all hat, mustache, and chin.
Das Europaische Gleichgewicht 1914The European Equilibrium, 1914
"For the Jews of Poland and Lithuania the war is one of the greatest disasters they have ever known. Hundreds of thousands of them have had to leave their homes in Lodz, Kielce, Petrokov, Ivangorod, Skiernewice, Suvalki, Grodno, Bielostock, etc. Almost everywhere the prelude to their lamentable exodus has been the looting of their shops, synagogues, and houses. Thousands of families have taken refuge in Warsaw and Vilna; the majority are wandering aimlessly like a flock of sheep. It's a miracle that there have been no pogroms — organized massacres. But not a day passes in the zone of the armies without a number of Jews being hanged on a trumped-up charge of spying."
Entry from the memoirs of Maurice Paléologue, French Ambassador to Russia, for Wednesday, October 28, 1914. Sergei Sazonov was the Russian Foreign Minister and told Paléologue that the Government was considering changes to the 'far too arbitrary and vexatious regulations to which the Russian Jews' were subjected. By the day of their conversation, much of the war on the Eastern Front had been fought in Russian Poland and Galicia, Austria-Hungary. Although Vilna was well behind the front lines, the other cities, including Warsaw, had been threatened if not taken in the Central Power advance of September and October.
An Ambassador's Memoirs Vol. I by Maurice Paléologue, page 173, publisher: George H. Doran Company, publication date: 1925
Jews, Jew, Poland, Lithuania, Lodz, Kielce, Petrokov, Ivangorod, Skiernewice, Suvalki, Grodno, Bielostock, 1914, October, 1914-10-28, 1914-10-28 00:00:00, Russia
