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'Poker and Tongs; Or, How We Got to Play the Game', by L. Reven-Hill
Kaiser. 'I go three dreadnoughts.'\r\nJohn Bull. 'Well, just to show there's no ill-feeling, I raise you three.'\r\nThe race between Britain and Germany for naval supremacy was both a symptom and a cause of the rising tensions that would eventually lead to the First World War. This cartoon, satirizing the high stakes poker game, originally appeared in Punch, 8 January 1908.
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