1-151-841 - Ann Ronan Picture Library/Heritage-Images

'Subject to Correction', 1912. Cartoon relating to the Peace Conference held in London in December 1912, to end the First Balkan War. An figure representing Europe closes the door while intensive negotiations proceed in the room beyond, instructing the negotiators; 'Now then, get on with your maps, and when you've finished bring them to me and I'll show you where you've gone wrong!'. Less than two years later, events in the volatile Balkans would plunge the continent into the conflagration of the First World War. From Punch, or the London Charivari, 18 December, 1912.