Summary: Animated cartoon ridiculing the Kaiser and German threats to invade Britain, 1917.
Description: The cartoonist draws the figures of the Kaiser "Bill" and the Crown Prince "Billie". They play with a U-boat in a water bowl until a cargo ship marked "NOOTRAL" ('neutral' in US pronunciation) blocks it. They agree the policy has failed, and consult their astrologer Hindenburg. In his crystal ball they see an image of Admirals Jellicoe and Beatty, and First Lord of the Admiralty Arthur Balfour, blocking an invasion of Britain by sea, and Zeppelins being shot down. Hindenburg decides on an underground tunnel from Berlin to Birmingham and a scientist builds boring machines to make it. Led by the Kaiser and Crown Prince the invasion force sets off but the Iron Crosses the Kaiser has issued to them all affect the compass and the force emerges at the North Pole. Water flooding in washes all but one of the machines back to Berlin. German newspapers announce that Birmingham, London and Liverpool have been destroyed by the raid. The Kaiser and Crown Prince are left stuck "up the pole".
