"LOOK AT THE MAP."

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 266, 13 April 1917, Page 3 (Supplement)

"LOOK AT THE MAP."

A HUN TO HIS KAISER.

"Look at the map!" your Majesty ?. What is the map to me? Look at my starving children, sire—■ Fruit of your " victory"! Look at my dead son's shattered fortD^

Slam on the Western front! If his life purchased victory, Why do I bear the brunt-' If his Ufe purchased victory, Where is my children's meat ? If this is tho price of victory, All Highest, give us defeat.

".Look at the map!'" I've looked, sire, And what is the thing I see? Great and prosperous Germany Shorn of each colony! Where is the stately shipping That traversed the oceans wide, Or, ridng into Hamburg, Brought wealth on every tide? And why in our ports lie skulking The keels of our mghty fleet? All Highest, if tnis »s victory, For God's sake give us defeat!

"Jj.iok at the map!" I'm looking— But long though I gaze and stare, I find, great Hohenzollern,

Little that comforts there. True, our frontiers are wider, Farther our flag now flies, But—this is the spot, All Highest, Where my dead son now lies! Look from your palace window

(hi the maimed men in the street ' If they arc the price of victory, I pray God for defeat!

'• Look at the map!" I hate it! Show me some food instead! Bring uack my ruined business And give hack my son, who's dead"! Bring h':ek tho-o days of pleasure, Prosperity and peace, Through which wo .-aw our JPerniftE wealth And happiness increase! Hnng hack the friendly faces We never more may greet! Since victory means misery, Then win for us —defeat!

'• Look at the map !" T curse it. Why crave we ncigh'HnirV land, li gaining it w "o lose what's more — I'he grip of a friendly hand? Vi ur m-ane lust of conquest Has wen us world-wide hate— Krmeniber Nalioin's vineyard And the envious neighbour's fate! Hearken, All Highest Kaiser— Not only I entreat : If thee are the fruits of victory. Mien give to us defeat! W. >f.

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