THE BABY-KILLERS' GLOAT.
The bombardment of Scarborough, WUitby, nud Hartlepool is still throwing the baby-killers into paroxysms of delight. "JvliKldcriidu tsch," 3. lending German weekly, celebrates the'achievement in the gleeful gibes reproduced below. ' Michel stands tor Germany iv the way that John Bull does for England. Michel, see! Thou art not ■worth The gracious love of England. Why dost thou flash the sword And dost not turn thy back to take His harmless, Christian blows? Art thou not smitteu with a sense of sin?— . Scarborough! England, so good and holy, Delight of every nation; Where shall we find the sun Shine on so choice "a race. In fat content and joyous mood Planting in peace its cabbages!— Hartlepool: England, oh, thou noble land. Land of the splendid Briton! So kindly and so spirited. Thou art unto most distant shores Always the warmest welcomed. — Odichel,: -however, the scurvy felloWj .Michel shoots'. • -"- ■>— ■ : '\ 1
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 50, 27 February 1915, Page 15
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151THE BABY-KILLERS' GLOAT. Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 50, 27 February 1915, Page 15
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