New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 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 II, May, 1915

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

New York The New York Times Company
1915

CONTENTS
NUMBER II. MAY, 1915.
Page
GENERAL SIR JOHN FRENCH'S OWN STORY (With Map) 205
The Costly Victory of Neuve Chapelle
ROBERTS OF KANDAHAR (Poem) 210 By Sidney Low
THE SURRENDER OF PRZEMYSL (With Maps) 211 How Galicia's
Strong Fortress Yielded to the Russian Siege
THE JESTERS (Poem) 217 By Marion Couthouy Smith
LORD KITCHENER ADVERTISES FOR RECRUITS 218
BATTLE OF THE DARDANELLES (With Map) 219 The Disaster
that Befell the Allies' Fleet
OFFICIAL STORY OF TWO SEA FIGHTS (With Maps) 223
BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND MORNING (Poem) 231 By Sir Owen
Seaman
THE GREATEST OF CAMPAIGNS (With Map) 232 The French
Official Account Concluded
SONNET ON THE BELGIAN EXPATRIATION 250 By Thomas
Hardy
WAR CORRESPONDENCE (With Map) 251
THE SPIRIT OF MANKIND 258 By Woodrow Wilson
"WHAT THE GERMANS SAY ABOUT THEIR OWN METHODS
OF WARFARE" 259 (With Facsimile Letters) By Professor Bedier of

the College de France
THE RECRUIT (Poem) 274 By Hortense Flexner
AMERICAN REPLY TO BRITAIN'S BLOCKADE ORDER 275 By
William J. Bryan
GERMANY'S CONDITIONS OF PEACE 279 By Dr. Bernhard
Dernburg
THE ALLIES' CONDITIONS OF PEACE 282 By Sir Edward Grey
SOUTH AFRICA'S ROMANTIC BLUE PAPER (With Map) 284
THE BELLS OF BERLIN (Poem) 289 From Punch of London
WARFARE AND BRITISH LABOR 290 By Earl Kitchener
SAVIORS OF EUROPE 292 By Rene Bazin
BRITAIN'S PERIL OF STRIKES AND DRINK 293 By Lloyd George
ITALY'S EVOLUTION AS REFLECTED BY HER PRESS 301
SOME RUSES DE GUERRE (Poem) 304 By A.M. Wakeman
THE EUROPEAN WAR AS SEEN BY CARTOONISTS 305
FACSIMILE OF A BELGIAN BREAD-CHECK 329
TO A GERMAN APOLOGIST (Poem) 329 By Beatrice Barry
AMERICA'S NEUTRALITY 330 By Count Albert Apponyi
NEUTRAL SPIRIT OF THE SWISS 335 An Interview with President
Motta
TO KING AND PEOPLE (Poem) 336 By Walter Sichel
A SWISS VIEW OF GERMANY 337 By Maurice Millioud
THE LAND OF MAETERLINCK 344 By Alfred Sutro
AMERICA AND PROHIBITION RUSSIA 345 By Isabel F. Hapgood
THE MOTHER'S SONG (Poem) 350 By Cecilia Reynolds Robertson
PAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS AS AFFECTED BY THE WAR 351
By Huntington Wilson
AN EASTER MESSAGE (Poem) 357 By Beatrice Barry
AN INTERVIEW ON THE WAR WITH HENRY JAMES 358 By
Preston Lockwood
A TALK WITH BELGIUM'S GOVERNOR 363 By Edward Lyall Fox
A CHARGE IN THE DARK (Poem) 365 By O.C.A. Child
A NEW POLAND 366 By Gustave Hervé
"WITH THE HONORS OF WAR" 368 By Wythe Williams
GENERAL FOCH, THE MAN OF YPRES 373
THE UNREMEMBERED DEAD (Poem) 377 By Ella A. Fanning
CANADA AND BRITAIN'S WAR UNION 378 By Edward W.

Thomson
ENGLAND (Poem) 384 By John E. Dolson
AMERICAN AID OF FRANCE 385 By Eugène Brieux
A FAREWELL (Poem) 387 By Edna Mead
STORIES OF FRENCH COURAGE 388 By Edwin L. Shuman
A TROOPER'S SOLILOQUY (Poem) 392 By O.C.A. Child
AMERICAN UNFRIENDLINESS 393 By Maximilian Harden
ENDOWED WITH A NOBLE FIRE OF BLOOD 395 By A. Kouprine
CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR 396
THE DAY (Poem) 408 By Henry Chappell
[Illustration: COMMANDER THIERICHENS
Commander of the German commerce-raider Prinz Eitel Friedrich,
which sank the American sailing ship William P. Frye.]
[Illustration: THE GRAND DUCHESS OF LUXEMBURG
Whose little State was first occupied by the German forces.
(Photo from George Grantham Bain.)]

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

General Sir John French's Own Story
The Costly Victory of Neuve Chapelle
_LONDON, April 14.--Field Marshal Sir John French, commander of
the British expeditionary forces on the Continent, reports the British
losses in the three days' fighting at Neuve Chapelle last month, as