SLAPPING THE KAISER'S FACE
6 The latest reports from Heligoland state thiit the const defences arc being demolished, and the twt>ve-inch guns put there by the, Germans are being cut in sections as one would break up an old drain. But what, asks the London "Atorning Post." has become of the First Recruit, the first baby born after trn cession of the island to Germany. He was a little hero in his way, and a Briton at heart. When the Kaiser and Kaiserin landed on the island shortly after his birth, Baby the First was in a vory pugnacious mood. Ho tore tho middle out of the Kalserin's bouquet, _to begin with. Nor was ho more submissive to the All-Highest. When the Kaiser attempted to pat his cheek Baby the "First raise<l his littlo fist and smote his Sovereign across tho face, turned his back on him. Onei hopes-one does not know-that Baby the First escaped from ins native land to fight for tho country that was really his. 1
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 257, 24 July 1920, Page 10
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170SLAPPING THE KAISER'S FACE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 257, 24 July 1920, Page 10
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