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
"On the 9th of January the 3rd Army attacked at Maisons de Champagne, on the 12th of February at Ste. Marie à Py, and on the 13th of the same month at Tahure. On the 28th and 29th of January the 2nd Army had a fine success at Frise, south of the Somme. The 6th Army struck on the 26th of January at Neuville, and on the 8th of February to the west of Vimy, and on the 21 of February east of Souchez. Gaede's Army detachment pushed forward into the French lines near Obersept on the 13th of February. Everywhere the appointed objectives were reached, and the enemy suffered heavy losses. The relatively slight German losses sustained on these occasions were justified, for it is highly probably that these operations materially contributed to mask our plans."
German Commander-in-Chief Erich von Falkenhayn's summary of his attacks along the French front in January and February, to divert attention from preparations for his coming offensive at Verdun. The 3rd Army was in Champagne, west of Verdun and east of Reims, the 6th in Artois. Ten kilometers from the Swiss border, Obersept was a German town in Elsaß, held, when Falkenhayn attacked, by the French. It is now Seppois-le-Haut in Alsace, France.
General Headquarters and its Critical Decisions, 1914-1916 by Erich von Falkenhayn, page 264, copyright © 1920 by Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc., publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc., publication date: 1920
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