New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915

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The New York Times
CURRENT HISTORY
A Monthly Magazine
THE EUROPEAN WAR, VOLUME II
April, 1915-September, 1915
With Index
Number I, April 1915

[Illustration: [logo] THE N.Y. TIMES]

New York The New York Times Company
1915

CONTENTS
NUMBER I. APRIL, 1915.
Page
GERMANY'S WAR ZONE AND NEUTRAL FLAGS 1 The German Decree and Interchange of Notes
GERMANY'S SUBMARINE WAR (With Map) 20
GERMAN PEOPLE NOT BLINDED 22 By Karl Lamprecht
REVEILLE 24 By John Galsworthy
CAN GERMANY BE STARVED OUT? 25 An Answer by Sixteen German Specialists
HOCH DER KAISER (Poem) 28 By George Davies
THE SUBMARINE OF 1578 29
THE TORPEDO (Poem) 30 By Katherine D.M. Simons, Jr.
"GOD PUNISH ENGLAND, BROTHER" 31 A New Hymn of Germany's Gospel of Hatred
THE GREAT HOUR (Poem) 32 By Hermann Sudermann
THE PEACE OF THE WORLD 33 By H.G. Wells
ZEPPELIN RAIDS ON LONDON (With Map) 46 By the Naval Correspondent of The London Times
JULIUS CAESAR ON THE AISNE 48
SIR JOHN FRENCH'S OWN STORY (With Map) 49 Continuing the Famous Dispatches of the British Commander
THE CATHEDRAL OF RHEIMS 60 By Emile Verhaeren
MUSIC OF WAR 61 By Rudyard Kipling
AMERICA AND A NEW WORLD STATE 63 By Norman Angell
SIR CHRISTOPHER CRADOCK (Poem) 84 By John E. Dolson
BATTLE OF THE SUEZ CANAL (With Map) 85 First-hand Account of the Turkish Invasion
A FULL-FLEDGED SOCIALIST STATE 89 By J. Laurence Laughlin
LETTERS FROM WIVES 92
"WAR CHILDREN" 92
NO PREMATURE PEACE FOR RUSSIA 93 Proceedings at Opening of the Duma, Feb. 9
TO THE VICTOR BELONG THE SPOILS (Poem) 96 By Madeleine Lucette Ryley
LESSONS OF THE WAR TO MARCH NINTH 97 By Charles W. Eliot
BELGIUM'S KING AND QUEEN 100 By Paul Hervieu
THE EUROPEAN WAR AS SEEN BY CARTOONISTS 101
THE CHANCES OF PEACE AND THE PROBLEM OF POLAND (With Map) 123 By J. Ellis Barker
THE REDEMPTION OF EUROPE (Poem) 128 By Alfred Noyes
GERMANY WILL END THE WAR 129 By Maximilian Harden
LOUVAIN'S NEW STREETS 133
THE STATE OF HOLLAND 134 By Hendrik Willem van Loon
HUNGARY AFTER THE WAR (With Map) 137 By a Correspondent of The London Times
THE WATCHERS OF THE TROAD (Poem) 139 By Harry Lyman Koopman
THE UNION OF CENTRAL EUROPE 140 By Franz von Liszt
TWO POOR LITTLE BELGIAN FLEDGLINGS 143 By Pierre Loti
WHAT THE GERMANS DESIRE 144 By Gustaf Sioesteen
ADDRESS TO KING ALBERT OF BELGIUM 147 By Emile Verhaeren
FORESHADOWING A NEW PHASE OF WAR 148 By Lloyd George, British Chancellor of the Exchequer
BRITAIN'S UNSHEATHED SWORD 153 By H.H. Asquith, England's Prime Minister
SWEDEN'S SCANDINAVIAN LEADERSHIP (With Map) 160 By a Swedish Political Expert
FROM ENGLAND (Poem) 164 By Maurice Hewlett
WAR CORRESPONDENCE 165
THE DRAGON'S TEETH (Poem) 181 By Caroline Duer
THE GREATEST OF CAMPAIGNS (With Map) 182 The French Official Account
BY THE NORTH SEA (Poem) 185 By W.L. Courtney
WHEN MARTHE CHENAL SANG THE "MARSEILLAISE" 187 By Wythe Williams
A WAR OF COMMERCE TO FOLLOW 189 By Sir William Ramsay
BELGIUM (Poem) 192 By Edith Wharton
DESIRED PEACE TERMS FOR EUROPE 193 By Proponents for the Allies and for Germany
THE BRITISH VOLUNTEERS (Poem) 195 By Katherine D.M. Simons, Jr.
CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR 196
[Illustration: H.M. HUSSEIN KEMAL
The New Sultan of Egypt, Which Was Recently Declared a British Protectorate]
[Illustration: THE RUSSIAN ROYAL FAMILY
The Children of the Czar Have Inherited the Regal Beauty of Their Mother
(Photo from Paul Thompson)]

The New York Times
CURRENT HISTORY
A MONTHLY MAGAZINE
THE EUROPEAN WAR
APRIL, 1915

Germany's War Zone and Neutral Flags
The German Decree and Interchange of Notes Answering American Protests to Germany and Britain
BERLIN, Feb. 4, (by wireless to Sayville, L.I.)--The German Admiralty today issued the following communication:
The waters around Great Britain and Ireland, including the whole English Channel, are declared a war zone on and after Feb. 18, 1915.
Every enemy merchant ship found in this war zone will be destroyed, even if it is impossible to avert dangers which threaten the crew and passengers.
Also neutral ships in the war zone are in danger, as in consequence of the misuse of neutral flags ordered by the British Government on Jan. 31, and in view of the hazards of naval warfare, it cannot always be avoided that attacks meant for enemy ships endanger neutral ships.
Shipping northward, around the Shetland Islands, in the eastern