New York Times Current History: Vol 1, No. 1 | Page 3

THE POLES 825 By A. Konovalov of the Russian Duma
I AM FOR PEACE (Poem) 826 By Lurana Sheldon
UNITED RUSSIA 827 By Peter Struve
PRINCE TRUBETSKOI'S APPEAL TO RUSSIANS 830 To Help the Polish Victims of War
HOW PROHIBITION CAME TO RUSSIA 831 An Interview with the Reformer Tchelisheff
INFLUENCE OF THE WAR UPON RUSSIAN INDUSTRY 834 By the Russian Ministry of Commerce
DECLARATION OF THE RUSSIAN INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS 835
A RUSSIAN FINANCIAL AUTHORITY ON THE WAR 836 By Prof. Migoulin
PROPOSED INTERNAL LOANS OF RUSSIA 837 (Prof. Migoulin's Plan)
HOW RUSSIAN MANUFACTURERS FEEL 838 Digested from Russkia Vedomosti
NEW SOURCES OF REVENUE NEEDED 839 By A. Sokolov
OUR RUSSIAN ALLY 840 By Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace
CONFISCATION OF GERMAN PATENTS 849 By the Russian Ministry of Commerce
A RUSSIAN INCOME TAX 850 Proposed by the Ministry of Finance
TOOLS OF THE RUSSIAN JUGGERNAUT 851 By M.J. Bonn
FATE OF THE JEWS IN POLAND 854 By Georg Brandes
COMMERCIAL TREATIES AFTER THE WAR 863 By P. Maslov
PHOTOGRAPHIC REVIEW OF THE WAR 865 48 War Pictures Printed in Rotogravure
PATRIOTISM AND ENDURANCE 913 The Pastoral Letter of Cardinal D.J. Mercier, Archbishop of Malines
APPEAL TO AMERICA FOR BELGIUM (Poem) 924 By Thomas Hardy
WITH THE GERMAN ARMY 925 By Cyril Brown
STORY OF THE MAN WHO FIRED ON RHEIMS CATHEDRAL 928
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS'S COMMENT 931
THE GERMAN AIRMEN 932
GERMAN GENERALS TALK OF THE WAR 934
SWIFT REVERSAL TO BARBARISM 939 By Vance Thompson
CIVIL LIFE IN BERLIN 943 From The London Times
BELGIAN BOY TELLS STORY OF AERSCHOT 945 From The New York Times
THE NEUTRALS (Poem) 948 By Beatrice Barry
FIFTEEN MINUTES ON THE YSER 949 From The New York Times
SEEING NIEUPORT UNDER SHELL FIRE 951 From The New York Times
RAID ON SCARBOROUGH SEEN FROM A WINDOW 954 By Ruth Kauffmann
HOW THE BARONESS HID HER HUSBAND ON A VESSEL 956 From The New York Times
WARSAW SWAMPED WITH REFUGEES 957 By H.W. Bodkinson
AFTER THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE IN GALICIA 958 From The London Times
OFFICER IN BATTLE HAD LITTLE FEELING 959 By The Associated Press
THE BATTLE OF NEW YEAR'S DAY 961 By Perceval Gibbon
BASS'S STORY 963 From The New York Times
THE WASTE OF GERMAN LIVES 964 By Perceval Gibbon
THE FLIGHT INTO SWITZERLAND 966 By Ethel Therese Hugh
ONCE FAIR BELGRADE IS A SKELETON CITY 969 From The New York Times
LETTERS AND DIARIES 971 A Group of Soldiers' Letters
"CHANT OF HATE AGAINST ENGLAND" 984 How Ernst Lissauer's Lines were "Sung to Pieces" in Germany
ANSWERING THE "CHANT OF HATE" 988 By Beatrice M. Barry
ENGLAND CAUSED THE WAR 989 By T. von Bethmann-Hollweg, German Imperial Chancellor
A SONG OF THE SIEGE GUN (Poem) 992 By Katharine Drayton Mayrant Simons, Jr.
WHY ENGLAND FIGHTS GERMANY 993 By Hilaire Belloc
AT THE VILLA ACHILLEION, CORFU (Poem) 999 By H.T. Sudduth
GERMANY'S STRATEGIC RAILWAYS (With Map) 1000 By Walter Littlefield
GLORY OF WAR (Poem) 1004 By Adeline Adams
CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR 1007

NUMBER VI.
THE CALDRON OF THE BALKANS
HOW TURKEY WENT TO WAR 1025
SERBIA AND HER NEIGHBORS 1036
LITTLE MONTENEGRO SPEAKS 1043
BULGARIA'S ATTITUDE 1044
GREECE'S WATCHFUL WAITING 1050
WHERE RUMANIA STANDS IN THE CRISIS 1054
EXIT ALBANIA? 1062
THE WAR IN THE BALKANS 1068 By A.T. Polyzoides
THE EUROPEAN WAR AS SEEN BY CARTOONISTS 1073
GERMANY VS. BELGIUM 1101 Case of the Secret Military Documents Presented by Both Sides
THE BIG AND THE GREAT (Poem) 1114 By William Archer
"FROM THE BODY OF THIS DEATH" (Poem) 1119 By Sidney Low
"A SCRAP OF PAPER" 1120 By Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg and Sir Edward Grey
THE KAISER AT DONCHERY 1125 By The Associated Press
HAIL! A HYMN TO BELGIUM (Music by F.H. Cowen) 1126 By John Galsworthy
HOLLAND'S FUTURE (With Map) 1128 By H.G. Wells
FRENCH OFFICIAL REPORT ON GERMAN ATROCITIES 1133
A FRENCH MAYOR'S PUNISHMENT 1163 By The Associated Press
WE WILL FIGHT TO THE END 1164 By Premier Viviani of France
NUITS BLANCHES 1166 By H.S. Haskins
UNCONQUERED FRANCE 1167 From the Bulletin Francais
FOUR MONTHS OF WAR (With Map) 1169 From the Bulletin des Armees
LONG LIVE THE ALLIES! 1174 By Claude Monet
UNITED STATES FAIR TO ALL 1175 By William J. Bryan, American Secretary of State
THE HOUSE WITH SEALED DOORS (Poem) 1183 By Edith M. Thomas
SEIZURES OF AMERICAN CARGOES 1184 By William J. Bryan, American Secretary of State
GERMAN CROWN PRINCE TO AMERICA 1187 By The Associated Press
THE OFFICIAL BRITISH EXPLANATION 1188 By Sir Edward Grey
ITALY AND THE WAR (With Map) 1192 By William Roscoe Thayer
HE HEARD THE BUGLES CALLING (Poem) 1198 By Carey C.D. Briggs
GERMAN SOLDIERS WRITE HOME 1199
WAR CORRESPONDENCE 1207
THE BROKEN ROSE (TO KING ALBERT) 1210 By Annie Vivanti Chartres
THE HEROIC LANGUAGE (Poem) 1216 By Alice Meynell
CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR 1224
TO HIS MAJESTY KING ALBERT (Poem) 1228 By William Watson
[Illustration: GEORGE BERNARD SHAW]
[Illustration: ARNOLD BENNETT. See Page 60]

"Common Sense About the War"
By George Bernard Shaw.
I.
"Let a European war break out--the war, perhaps, between the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente, which so many journalists and politicians in England and Germany contemplate with criminal levity. If the combatants prove to be equally balanced, it may, after the first battles, smoulder on for thirty years. What will be the population of London,