But, even although the streets may be said to have been sweetened by the absence of posters, days will come, it must be remembered, when we shall badly miss them. It goes painfully to one's heart to think that the embargo, if it is ever lifted, will not be lifted in time for most of the events which we all most desire, events that clamour to be recorded in the large black type that for so many years Londoners have associated with fatefulness. Such as ("reading from left to right"):—
| FALL OF METZ. | STRASBURG FRENCH AGAIN. | ALLIES CROSS THE RHINE. | FLIGHT OF CROWN PRINCE. | RUSSIANS NEARING BERLIN. | ||||
| BRITISH AND FRENCH NEARING BERLIN. | REVOLUTION IN GERMANY. | FALL OF BERLIN. | THE KAISER A CAPTIVE. | VICTORY! | ||||
| And Finally— | ||||||||
| AMERICA DECLARES WAR. | PEACE! | |||||||
It will be hard to lose these.
FRITZ'S APOLOGIA.
Yes, war is horrible and hideous—
It jars upon my sense fastidious,
My "noble instincts," to decline
To actions that are not divine.
So, when I mutilate your pictures,