Source: File: A 1915 Anti-German League, Australian badge.jpg.
[online] An original image is Available at: <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AGLbadge.jpg> [Accessed: 2 January 2016]
With first column
of joyful news
To tell of births
- alongside Happy
New Year
greetings, from Cheri
Mr. A De Hem and
Miss Eddes -
Echoed by Mrs.
Roger's greetings
And thanks for
wishes, during
Her illness, above
a sober square.
Below a personal
advert set out
How numbers
solely in London,
For 10,729
Germans uninterned -
The figures replied
to a question
Made by house of
commons -
To be 10,729; the
advert quizes
How long is state
to continue?
Such views were
nothing new,
And could date
back to middle
Ages, in dislike
of all things as in
Danish Chronicon Lethrense -
The middle of
nineteenth century,
With rise of
Germany's power
And solidity in
unification was fear.
From wars strike
of 1914, riots
Against all German
presence
Had occurred - to
continue
Brewing, not just
in Britain yet
All over the
world - in Empire
State of
Australia by 1915,
A league was well
established.
Tuesday 23
November 1915,
Darlinghurst saw
a meeting
In open air of
the Anti-German
League - in a call
for dismissals
All to be made
for any German
Presence in
Australian office.
In advertising, 1
January 1916,
Was the British
AGL to claim
How neutral
countries, believed
Britain mad - in
peril of alien
Enemies still at
large - a call
Being adverts
purpose to all
True British, to
join the AGL.
The League's
purpose was
To place pressure
on those
Allowing Germans
to be
Uninterned - the
need being
Called for a million
members,
To help the
battle cry to make
Everything German
taboo.
The unity of this league
Would spread
across the
Empire, to
justify existing
Germanophobia and
play
Of pre war fears
- a public
Should send for
application.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1916. Personal Column: 10,729 Germans. The Daily Telegraph,
[online] 1 January 1916.
P.1. Col.2. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12072922/Daily-Telegraph-January-1-1916.html
[Accessed: 1 January 2016].
Mann, J., 2016. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 1 January 2016).
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