in response to news reports that "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_II,_German_Emperor" class="extiw" title="w:Wilhelm II, German Emperor">Emperor William</a> furnished the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Russian_Army" class="extiw" title="w:Imperial Russian Army">Russians</a> with plans for the conduct of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War" class="extiw" title="w:Russo-Japanese War">war against the Japanese</a>", <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._A._Bushnell" class="extiw" title="w:E. A. Bushnell">E. A. Bushnell</a> depicted <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksey_Kuropatkin" class="extiw" title="w:Aleksey Kuropatkin">Aleksey Kuropatkin</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeni_Ivanovich_Alekseyev" class="extiw" title="w:Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev">Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev</a> consulting a cryptic diagram labeled "WAR MAP SHOWING HOW TO LICK THE JAPS, FROM YOUR UNCLE BILL, EMPEROR OF GERMANY" -- while hiding from an artillery barrage.
<p>The diagram is signed "Yours Truly, Kaiser Wilhelm".
</p>
Note that the documents at Kuropatkin's and Alekseyev's feet say "I regret to report" -- the standard wording on the notice sent to a soldier's family to report that the soldier had been killed in action.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:E._A._Bushnell" class="extiw" title="w:en:E. A. Bushnell"><span title="American cartoonist">E. A. Bushnell</span></a>
</bdi>
<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1904-06-09/ed-1/seq-1/">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1904-06-09/ed-1/seq-1/</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tacoma_Times" class="extiw" title="w:The Tacoma Times">The Tacoma Times</a>)