New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915

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5, August, 1915
Author: Various

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The New York Times
CURRENT HISTORY
A Monthly Magazine
THE EUROPEAN WAR
AUGUST, 1915

[Illustration: H.M. QUEEN SOPHIA OF GREECE
Sister of Kaiser Wilhelm, and an Ardent Germanophile
(Photo from Bain.)]
[Illustration: HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XV.

The Entrance of Italy into the War has Increased the Delicacy of the
Pontiff's Position
(Photo from International News.)]

CONTENTS
THE LUSITANIA CASE
The American Rejoinder
German and American Press Opinion
Austria-Hungary's Protest
Armenian, Orduna, and Others
Results of Submarine Warfare
In Memoriam: REGINALD WARNEFORD
American Preparedness
First Year of the War
Inferences from Eleven Months of the European Conflict
"Revenge for Elisabeth!"
A Year of the War in Africa and Asia
An "Insult" to War
The Drive at Warsaw
Naval Losses During the War
Battles in the West

France's "Eyewitness" Reports
The Crown Prince in the Argonne
Gallipoli's Shambles
Italy's War on Austria
The Task of Italy
Two Devoted Nations
Rumania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece
Dr. Conybeare's Recantation
The Case of Muenter
Devotion to the Kaiser
Scientists and the Military
Hudson Maxim on Explosives
Thor!
"I am the Gravest Danger"
THE EUROPEAN WAR AS SEEN BY CARTOONISTS
The Belligerents' Munitions
The Power of the Purse
Cases Reserved
New Recruiting in Britain
American War Supplies

Magazinists of the World on the War
Germany's Long-Nourished Powers
"To Avenge"
The Pope, the Vatican, and Italy
Are the Allies Winning?
Selling Arms to the Allies
War and Non-Resistance
"Good Natured Germany"
Italy's Defection
Apologies for English Words
Germanic Peace Terms
France's Bill of Damages
A French Rejoinder
Dr. Von Bode's Polemic
"Carnegie and German Peace"
Russia's Supply of Warriors
Austria and the Balkans
Italy's Publications in War-Time
Sweden and the Lusitania
A Threatened Despotism of Spirit

"Gott Mit Uns"
On the Psychology of Neutrals
Chlorine Warfare
Rheims Cathedral
The English Falsehood
Calais or Suez?
Note on the Principle of Nationality
Singer of "La Marseillaise"
Depression--Common-Sense and the Situation
The War and Racial Progress
The English Word, Thought, and Life
Evviva L'Italia
Who Died Content!
"The Germans, Destroyers of Cathedrals"
Chronology of the War

THE LUSITANIA CASE
The American Note to Berlin of July 21
Steps Leading Up to President Wilson's Rejection of Germany's
Proposals
The German Admiralty on Feb. 4 proclaimed a war zone around Great

Britain announcing that every enemy merchant ship found therein
would be destroyed "without its being always possible to avert the
dangers threatening the crews and passengers on that account."
The text of this proclamation was made known by Ambassador Gerard
on Feb. 6. Four days later the United States Government sent to
Germany a note of protest which has come to be known as the "strict
accountability note." After pointing out that a serious infringement of
American rights on the high seas was likely to occur, should Germany
carry out her war-zone decree in the manner she had proclaimed, it
declared:
"If such a deplorable situation should arise, the Imperial German
Government can readily appreciate that the Government of the United
States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German Government
to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities and to
take any steps it might be necessary to take to safeguard American lives
and property and to secure to American citizens the full enjoyment of
their acknowledged rights on the high seas."
The war-zone decree went into effect on Feb. 18. Two days later
dispatches were cabled to Ambassador Page at London and to
Ambassador Gerard at Berlin suggesting that a modus vivendi be
entered into by England and Germany by which submarine warfare and
sowing of mines at sea might be abandoned if foodstuffs were allowed
to reach the German civil population under American consular
inspection.
Germany