To the left, caricatures of a fallen King Albert of Belgium, Tsar Nicholas of Russia, President Poincare of France, generic (?) caricatures of an English man and a Japanese soldier, Kings Peter of Serbia, and Nikola of Montenegro engaging in a tug of war, the rope being held on the right by a German (in gray) and an Austro-Hungarian soldier. Between the teams and behind the rope stands the diminutive caped figure of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, all hat, mustache, and chin.

Das Europaische Gleichgewicht 1914



The European Equilibrium, 1914

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Friday, June 28, 1918

"The man who had talked best sense to him in Salonika was Prince Regent Alexander, and on June 28 (Serbia's National Day and the fourth anniversary of the Sarajevo assassination) Franchet d'Esperey set out for the Serbian front in the special headquarters' train which had been fitted out by Sarrail two years previously and hardly used. With d'Esperey traveled the Voivode Mišić, the general whose men had stormed the Kajmakcalan and who was now to replace Bojović as Serbian chief of staff."

Quotation Context

French General Louis Franchet d'Esperey was sent to the Salonica Front after being assigned blame for the stunning German advance of the Aisne (Blücher) Offensive in May, 1918. He followed Generals Guillaumat and Maurice Sarrail commanding an Allied line that included French, British, Italian, and Serbian troops. Salonika was the Allied base in Greece. Prince Regent Alexander was acting head of state and heir to the throne of Serbia. The assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 was the act that led to the war in little more than a month. A Voivode is a Serbian Field Marshal.

Source

The Gardeners of Salonika by Alan Palmer, page 187, copyright © 1965 by A. W. Palmer, publisher: Simon and Schuster, publication date: 1965

Tags

1918-06-28, 1918, June, Serbia, Franchet d'Esperey