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Picture No 10700199
Date 1915
Description German Breaches of the Hague Convention by Heath Robinson
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XII - Gin-and-bittering the wells in German South West Africa to induce ration-proof hunger. German soldiers spiking wells in order to make British soldiers so hungry they'll even eat their own guns. Another example of dastardly underhand German techniques for defeating the British from the imagination of William Heath Robinson.
Source Illustration by William Heath Robinson in The Sketch, 8 September 1915
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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