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