A Pawn in Hindenburg's Game.

Free Lance, Volume XVI, Issue 867, 16 February 1917, Page 5

A Pawn in Hindenburg's Game.

(The German Crown Prince reflects upon a recent report that he was to be given a command in Alsace.) ' ..-■ A rumour ran the other daySending a thrill all down my spine^— That I was being moved away > To keep a watch upon the_ Rhine; With very willing zeal would T - Have taken on this .softer burden, For|' to be frank, I'll not deny That I am sick to death of Verdun. Lord knows that I have shoved and '-■ hacked "■'"'.. Till I grew purple in $he face, And yet, for all my brains and tact,

I couldn't take the beastly place; Yes, though in point of cannon-food No one can say that I've been chary, It stands precisely where it stood -"When I began last February. Father, of course, still shoots a* lip About the Hohenzollem /stock, Won't hear of failure in a chip Of bur superb ancestral block; 'But vain is all this Potsdam talk (That's not an oath, though I might well swear) , ~ \ ' ' '];■.'■ While Hindenburg is free to walk Off with my troops and plant 'em elsewhere. The fault is his,l-this new War-Nob; That I'm so wan about_the gills :. And' hanker for a cushy job ''''.' Among the blue Alsatian hills; With half my veterans gone tb show .' Old "What' s-his-name the way to Btikarest, - •.'•'"' My general health has got so low It's time that Little Willie took a '•'■ resti \_ —OS., in [London <'Punch."