Orders -- sink the life boats,1917,World War I,WWI,Cartoon,German Soldier,Ocean

Title: Orders -- sink the life boats
Creator(s): Berryman, Clifford Kennedy, 1869-1949, artist
Date Created/Published: [1917]
Summary: World War I cartoon shows an enormous German soldier (labeled 'Prussianism'), standing in the ocean, using a harpoon to sink a lifeboat. A sign hanging from his sword reads 'Orders -- Sink the Lifeboats.' According to the traditional laws of sea warfare, crews of ships that were sunk were to be taken aboard or given lifeboats and every opportunity to escape death. Submarine warfare rendered these traditions obsolete. Some U-boat commanders evidently committed atrocities, but there is no indication that there was any policy dictating the sinking of lifeboats. 'Prussianism' was a contemporary term suggesting ruthless militarism.
Notes:
Probably published in: The Evening star (Washington, D.C.)
(DLC/PP-1945.R1.78)
mm / 860122; ljr / 030627.
Source: Stern, Battle beneath the waves, p. 8 ljr
Subjects:
World War, 1914-1918--Naval operations--Germany.
World War, 1914-1918--Moral & ethical aspects--Germany.
Military personnel--German
Drawings.
Editorial cartoons--American.
Bookmark /acd1996000770/PP/
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