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
"My duty to my country, which has been intrusted to me by God, impels me to-day, when the enemy has penetrated into the interior of the Empire, to take the supreme command of the active forces and to share with my army the fatigues of war, and to safeguard with it Russian soil from the attempts of the enemy.The ways of Providence are inscrutable, but my duty and my desire determine me in my resolution for the good of the State."
Proclamation of September 5, 1915 by Russian Tsar Nicholas II to the Grand Duke Nicholas, announcing his replacement as Commander of the Russian Armies by the Tsar himself. For four months, since the beginning of the German-Austro-Hungarian Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive, Russia have been retreating, ceding not only its Austro-Hungarian conquests in Galicia, but, by September 5, parts of the Empire itself, including Polish Russia and Lithuania.
The Great Events of the Great War in Seven Volumes by Charles F. Horne, Vol. III, 1915, pp. 316, 317, copyright © 1920 by The National Alumnia, publisher: The National Alumni, publication date: 1920
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