"IT'S A LONG WAY TO CONSTANTINOPLE."

Free Lance, Volume XV, Issue 789, 13 August 1915, Page 6

"IT'S A LONG WAY TO CONSTANTINOPLE."

A German Jibe. " W T'S a Long Way to Constajitii no pie" is the inscription below a cartoon in a recent number of the Munich comic paper, "Simplicissimus," a cartoon in which John Bull is depicted as a decrepit old man, who is being dragged along* in an invalid's chair by a gaunt British soldier, with one leg, and a halting French soldier who walks with the aid of a crutch. At the end of a long and winding road is a narrow defile, with frowning forts on either side. No doubt this sort of thing pleases the beer-siwillers in. the cafes of Munich, a city, by the wav where many scores of thousands of pounds was, before the war, spent every year by British tourists and art students, but a city, like all other haunts' of the Hun, which should, after the war, be avoided as carefully as; a leper's camp in China or a cholera-stricken cantonment in India.

No doubt it is a 'long, long way to Constantinople,'' and a weary way, and a bloody way, a way, alas, paved with death for many a gallant young New Zealander and Australian. But to Stamboul lan Hamilton will eventually get, so surely as day follows night and night day. And, to judge by what we read of the feeling of the Constantinople populace towards the gentle Hun, the Padishah's faithful sonsI—a1 —a good many of them at any rate—won't be very sorry when the British bandsmen strike up "It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperarv' 5 in the streets of Stamboul the Sacred.