Caricature "A youthful Ottoman; a-sitting on the fence.". The Knight-Wilhelm II of Germany shakes the Caterpillar-Ottoman dreamy smoking hookah; sitting on the fence of neutrality; Sultan Mehmet V would have supported the Ottoman Empire neutrality; but the pressure of Germany and its own counselors led him to allow the alliance stipulation turkish-German; officially he entered the war until three months after the declaration of war by engaging Russia in a vast theater to the east; to divert forces from the front with Germany. Table taken from "Malice in Kulturland" Horace Matthew Wyatt (1876 -?); A key political parody inspired in the text and illustrations by W. Tell the famous edition of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the looking-glass" Lewis Carroll illustrated by John Tenniell; when ostensibly modeled on the original drawings; caricatures are signed "W. Tell after John Tenniell". The car illustrated; London; 1915