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# Analysis for Modern Readers **"The Kolchak Army"** satirizes the contradictory war reports from the Russian Civil War. Admiral Kolchak led White Army forces against the Bolsheviks (1918-1920). The article mocks newspapers that repeatedly claimed he'd captured strategic positions, then reported him still miles away—with casualty figures reaching five million while his original force supposedly remained intact. It's a jab at sensationalist journalism creating a phantom "mystery" through contradictory reporting about a real military campaign. **"Their Waterloo"** (bottom cartoon) depicts tourists in WWI trenches. A guide apparently omits embarrassing local details about war profiteering that soldiers' letters home revealed. The satire suggests official narratives sanitize uncomfortable truths about home-front exploitation during the war. **Top cartoon** shows a woman modeling a hat to her husband. His dismissive comment—"I won't wear it long"—plays on the period's fashion-conscious women; she'll abandon it when styles change.
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The Kolchak Army By W. K. Porzen HE world has al had its mysteries to intrigue Once it was the Flying Dutchman, that phantom ship which appeared suddenly before the startled eves of seamen in every corner of the seven seas, and then just as promptly vanished. In more recent times we have had a far-famed se: serpent which obligingly visited all the shore resor ving behind it a wake of reputable witnesses—each with an entirely different tale to tell. Later yet, there was a Will-o-the-Wisp Mexican bandit, who, times innumerable, died in lonely huts hidden in mountain fastnesses—only to be resurrected the next day by some reporter to whom he gave an interview. Now the great mystery is Kolchak’s Army. Four times in a single week the papers blazoned forth the news that he had captured a certain unpronounc Bolshevik stronghold. In the following issues tl reported that he was still two hundred miles away Time and again have cach of his various arm been captured, slashed to pieces, routed. But th promptly reappear in the news, carrying all before them, Up to the present, the total number of Kolchak soldiers reported slain or taken prisoners is five million. But his original little band of followers still battles on. Their Waterloo “The Consumers’ League of our progressive little burg, composed of the ladies of our best families, and formed for the purpose of hunting down profiteers and holding them up to the scorn and detestation of their feller citizens,” related the landlord of the tavern at Grudge, “got along real well in their noble work until they discovered, almost synonymously and vraten by CALvEn ri Tourist (visiti now about ‘em! 9 I Draven by Curstren I. Ganot She—How do you like my new hat? “L think it is awful” ; . “Never mind, dear—I won't wear it long. simultaneously, that the husbands of practically all of them were skinning the public coming and going and without mercy. I guess the League would have died right there if some wise woman hadn't got them switched off onto Shakespe: and ever since then the way they have been giving the Bard of—er— whatever-it-is—down the bank, is plumb appalling.” he trenches) —Why, our son told us a lot of things that happened right here, an’ that guide don’t even