Poem ~ Another End to War - Tuesday, 6 July 1915

William Senior. "There will be no winter campaign. The war will be over in October." 

William Junior."Poor old father! He says that every year."

[In 1914 the Kaiser promised his troops that they should be "back in dear old Fatherland before the fall of the leaves."]

Impression sketch of Punch Cartoon - by Jamie. See original at: http://punch.photoshelter.com/image/I000084MODxzD4tM

By quotations of Capus,

Diplomat of Nuetral staus -

Came another intonation

Of war's end - in months.

Travelling back from Berlin,

The diplomat arrived Paris,

5 July, to report the Kaiser's

Belief - conveyed by speech -

The words voiced in event,

Of a military ceremony.

End of war would be made

In October 1915 - this claim

Having stirred up a great

Excitement in the German

Capital - the thought that

Having no winter campaign

Might relieve their anguish.

Yet still preparation went on

For a campaign in darkest

Months of the year - yet were

moves to avoid that kind

of dire situation - as efforts

of Germany would increase.

So that autumn would see

Furious final front, for gains

Of all that Germany sought-

While Capus' prediction that

Solid allied resistance, may

be straw to break Germany.

by Jamie Mann.

Anon.,1915. War to End in October - No Winter Campaign - Kaiser's Latest Speech. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 6 July. P.9. Col.6. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11720702/Daily-Telegraph-July-6-1915.html [Accessed: 6 July 2015].

Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 6 July 2015). 

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