KAISER HATES CARTOONIST

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 163, 7 April 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

KAISER HATES CARTOONIST

HOLLAND'S FAIuUCS ARTIST. Honoured by France, feted by Eng. lane.', hated by the Kaiser, and fearea by the Huns, M. Loui3 Raemaekers, the famous Dutch artist, is at the present time unquestionably the world's greatest cartoonist. With his pencil "lie has fought the Huns in such a scathing, merciless mannei that, metaphorically speaking, they have demanded his head of the Dutch authorities. Dearly would they love to intern and render powerless this little man with the short fair beard and dark blue eyes, who is making them writhe with the power and biting sarcasm of his cartoons. M. Raemaekers was ono of the first representative Dutchmen to attack the German conduct of the war. The tearing of the "scrap of paper," and the appalling inhumanity of the Huns, staggered not only himself, but his fel-low-countrymen, of whom he says, "The sympathies of the great majority lire with the British." M. Raemaekers says that lie never "stalks" his subject. "In the case of the Kaiser, it would be impossible," he says, laughingly, "for he would' shoot me—or perhaps I should shoot him." M. Raemaekers does not trouble much about details in his cartoons. Likeness and dress do not worry him. It .is what he calls the "soul" of the picture which counts. could be more impressive CTian his picture of a Zeppelin ''"triumph" a sheet drawn across a deathbed, beside which a child asks, "But mother had done nothing wrong, had she, Daddy?" M. Raemaekers is on the staff of the 'Telegraaf,' one of Holland s most important papers. Recently he paid a visit to London, when, at a gathering of pressmen, lie told them frankly what lie thought of the British at the l>egintiing of the war. "Then, he said, I saw England and her Allies get many heavy strokes from their enemies, and I saw that England kept on smiling. This I did not understand, and I was very angry with you ves, very angry, for I did not believe you were taking the war seriously enough, »ow I have come here and begin to understand that you keep smiling at the heavy blows you receive because I do not think you wish to show you have been seriously hit. I think you see the moment when you on your side can get in a stroke which will be a complete knock-out. I see that moment. That is all I have to say to you keep smiling."