God help us!

WILHELM.

Berlin, Schloss, Aug. 6, 1914.


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[Illustration: AUGUSTA VICTORIA,
German Empress.
(_Photo from M.E. Burner._)]




TO GERMAN WOMEN.

An Appeal from the Kaiserin.


On the summons of the Emperor our people are preparing for an
unprecedented struggle, which it did not invoke and which it is
only carrying on in its defense. Whoever can bear arms will
joyfully hasten to the colors to defend the Fatherland with his
blood. The struggle will be gigantic and the wounds to be healed
innumerable, therefore I call upon you women and girls of Germany,
and all to whom it is not given to fight for our beloved home, for