The Russian Review/Volume 1/February 1916/War Cartoons

 

War Cartoons.

(From "Satirikon," Petrograd.)

 

The Merchant to the Generalisimo: Perhaps our combined smoke will prove more effective than the poisonous fumes.

 

 

The Recruiting Officer: How can you go into the army? You can hardly be seen from the ground. The Youthful Aspirant: Isn't that the chief qualification of a scout?

 

 

War Correspondent, (dictating to his stenographer): I am sitting in a captured trench, astride an Austrian gun. Dense smoke envelops me. A little to one side, a machine gun is clicking rapidly...

 

 

"Why do you look so thin and discouraged, Fritz?" "Oh, we've just defeated the Russians."

 

 

Wood is so expensive nowadays, that it must be well guarded when carried from one end of the town to another.