....from a period postcard, printed in 1915.........ON AUGUST SIXTEENTH,OLD KAISER BILL SAID TO HIS MEN NOW PROVE YOUR SKILL, AND TRY AND REACH THE CUMBERLAND COAST, THE FEAT OF WHICH ID LIKE TO BOAST. THE KAISERS WORD THEY DID OBEY, AND FIRED AWAY IN PARTON BAY, WITH SHOT AND SHELL THEY DID THEIR BEST, TO PUT THE LOWCA WORKS AT REST. THE DAMAGE DONE WAS NOT SO MUCH, THE BENZOL PLANT THEY DID NOT TOUCH, ONE SHELL FELL HERE,ANOTHER THERE WHICH GAVE THE WORKMEN QUITE A SCARE. THE INHABITANTS TOO GREW QUITE ALARMED, BECAUSE THIS PORT IS STILL UNARMED, THIS OPPORTUNITY THE ENEMY SEIZED, AND RAINED THE SHELLS JUST WHERE HE PLEASED. TWO SHELLS WENT THROUGH A COTTAGE HOME, THE FATHER SHOUTS "A GERMAN BOMB", THE CHILDREN THEN RUSHED OUT LIKE BEES, AND JOINED THE LOWCA REFUGEES. THE SUBMARINE THEN MADE ITS WAY, ACROSS THE DUB FROM PARTON BAY, TO FIND SOME OTHER DEFENDLESS PORT, WHERE GERMAN FIENDS COULD HAVE THEIR SPORT. REMEMBER BILL,THE TIME WILL COME, WHEN WE"LL HAVE THEE BENEATH OUR THUMB AND THOU WILT WICH THOU HAD"ST NEVER BEEN BORN. FOR WE"LL TREAT THEE WITH THE UTMOST SCORN. THE BARBAROUS DEEDS AND ACTS ARE SUCH WE COULD NOT PUNISH THEE SO MUCH, DON"T ASK FROM US TO BE FORGIVEN, THE MOST FIENDISH VILLAIN UNDER HEAVEN. this was from a period postcard printed in 1915,and sold locally for one penny a time.

• published: 18 Jul 2013
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