"Seems to be a Neutral - Sink him"

Category

Library Item

Item no

32922

Title

"Seems to be a Neutral - Sink him"

Description

"Early in 1916 the German policy of ruthless U-boat warfare was extended by a diplomatic warning to neutral merchantmen calling at English ports. In practice the Germans at first used their submarine power as a lever to extort from small neutrals, such as Holland and Norway, greater supplies of imports. But as the year came to its close the Germans' calculation of enforcing a German peace by crippling the sea commerce not only of the enemy but of Europe generally, was shown in the steady increase of neutral tonnage sunk."

Artist / maker

Raemaekers, Louis

Date

1917

Size

34 x 27.2 cm

Type

Chromolithograph

Location

Art and Design Library

Copyright

Louis Raemaekaers' drawings are reproduced by kind permission of the Louis Raemaekers Foundation.