In thia original cartoon the artist cleverly utilises the line of battle prior to the Allied offensive, making it represent the outline of Hindenburg's features, his nose beinj; the salient thrust forward towards Paris. Paris is represented as the hinge of a pair of pincers, which Marshal Focli and General Haig are manipulating. By a happy accident, perhaps, Verdun is Shown between llindenl>urg"s lips, as if he were rejecting it, as being too bitter a pill to swallow. By a similar coincidence, Ypres, which is held l»y the British, is shown ns a mental problem, wrinkling the warrior's brow, while Amiens is depicted as being a place upon which an envious eye is fixed. It is now clear that this "sniff" 13 the approach to a Christmas dinner in Paris to which the Kaiser and his minions will ever attain.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 208, 31 August 1918, Page 15

In thia original cartoon the artist cleverly utilises the line of battle prior to the Allied offensive, making it represent the outline of Hindenburg's features, his nose beinj; the salient thrust forward towards Paris. Paris is represented as the hinge of a pair of pincers, which Marshal Focli and General Haig are manipulating. By a happy accident, perhaps, Verdun is Shown between llindenl>urg"s lips, as if he were rejecting it, as being too bitter a pill to swallow. By a similar coincidence, Ypres, which is held l»y the British, is shown ns a mental problem, wrinkling the warrior's brow, while Amiens is depicted as being a place upon which an envious eye is fixed. It is now clear that this "sniff" 13 the approach to a Christmas dinner in Paris to which the Kaiser and his minions will ever attain.