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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 III, June, 1915

New York The New York Times Company

1915

CONTENTS

NUMBER III. JUNE, 1915.

THE LUSITANIA CASE (With Map)

PRESIDENT WILSON'S SPEECHES AND NOTE TO GERMANY

History of a Series of Attacks on American Lives in the German War Zone

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AMERICAN NOTE TO GERMANY 409

GERMAN EMBASSY'S WARNING AND THE CONSEQUENCE 413
German Official Report 413
British Coroner's Verdict 414
German Note of Regret 415
England Answers Germany 415
Captain Turner Testifies 417
Lusitania's First Cabin List 418

DESCRIPTIONS BY SURVIVORS
Submarine Crew Observed 420
Ernest Cowper's Account 420
Charles Frohman's Death 422
Alfred Vanderbilt's Heroic End 423
Klein and Hubbard Lost 423

GERMANY JUSTIFIES THE DEED
German Official Report 424
Britain's Denial 424
Collector Malone's Denial 424
German Foreign Office Note on Neutrals 425
Dr. Dernburg's Defense 426

GERMAN PRESS OPINION
Comment in Germany and Austria 427
German-American Press Comment 430

FALABA, CUSHING, GULFLIGHT
Case of the Falaba 433
Case of the Cushing 434
Case of the Gulflight 435

AIM OF GERMAN SUBMARINE WARFARE 436
By Professor Flamm of Charlottenburg

THREE SPEECHES BY PRESIDENT WILSON
"AMERICA FIRST"--Address to the Associated Press 438
"HUMANITY FIRST"--Address at Philadelphia 441
"AMERICA FOR HUMANITY"--Address at the Fleet Review in New York 443

TWO EX-PRESIDENT'S VIEWS
Mr. Roosevelt Speaks 444
Mr. Taft Speaks 446

PRESIDENT WILSON'S NOTE 447
By Ex-President William H. Taft

ANOTHER VIEW (Poem) 447
By Beatrice Barry

IN THE SUBMARINE WAR ZONE 447
By The Associated Press

AMERICAN SHIPMENTS OF ARMS 448
By Count von Bernstorff

AMERICAN REPLY TO COUNT VON BERNSTORFF 449

MUNITIONS FROM NEUTRALS 451
Colloquy in the House of Commons

GERMANY AND THE LUSITANIA 452
By Dr. Charles W. Eliot

APPEALS FOR AMERICAN DEFENSE 455

THE DROWNED SAILOR (Poem) 457
By Maurice Hewlett

WAR WITH POISONOUS GASES (With Maps)

THE GAP AT YPRES MADE BY GERMAN CHLORINE VAPOR BOMBS

Reports by the Official "Eyewitness" and Dr. J.S. Haldane, F.R.S.

DR. HALDANE'S REPORT 458

THE "EYEWITNESS" STORY 459

WHAT THE GERMANS SAY 462

THE CANADIANS AT YPRES 463

VAPOR WARFARE RESUMED 471

TO CERTAIN GERMAN PROFESSORS OF CHEMICS (Poem) 478
By Sir Owen Seaman in Punch

SEVEN DAYS OF WAR EAST AND WEST (With Map) 479
By a Military Expert of The New York Times

AUSTRO-GERMAN SUCCESS 484
By Major E. Moraht

THE CAMPAIGN IN THE CARPATHIANS (With Map) 486
Russian Victory Succeeded by Reverses

ITALY IN THE WAR (With Maps)

HER MOVE AGAINST AUSTRO-HUNGARY

Last Phase of Italian Neutrality and Causes of the Struggle

DECLARATION OF WAR 490

FRANCIS JOSEPH'S DEFIANCE 490

ITALY'S CABINET EMPOWERED 491

ITALY'S JUSTIFICATION 494
By Foreign Minister Sonnino

GERMAN HATRED OF ITALY 497

ITALY'S NEUTRALITY--THE LAST PHASE 499
German, Serbian, and Italian Press Opinion

ANNUNCIATION (Poem) 503
By Ernst Lissauer

THE DARDANELLES (With Map) 504

ALLIES' SECOND CAMPAIGN WITH FLEETS AND LAND FORCES

"WAR BABIES" 516
From The Suffragette of London

THE EUROPEAN WAR AS SEEN BY CARTOONISTS 517
(With a Selection of American Cartoons on the Lusitania Case)

WHAT IS OUR DUTY? 533
By Emmeline Pankhurst

THE SOLDIER'S PASS (Poem) 536
By Maurice Hewlett

THE GREAT END 537
By Arnold Bennett

GERMAN WOMEN NOT YET FOR PEACE 540
By Gertrude Baumer

DIAGNOSIS OF THE ENGLISHMAN 541
By John Galsworthy

MY TERMS OF PEACE 545
By George Bernard Shaw

A POLICY OF MURDER 546
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

THE SOLDIER'S EPITAPH (Poem) 548
From Truth

THE WILL TO POWER 549
By Eden Phillpotts

ALLEGED GERMAN ATROCITIES

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT

And Presided Over by The Right Hon. Viscount Bryce Formerly British Ambassador at Washington

WARRANT OF BRYCE COMMITTEE'S APPOINTMENT 551
PART I 555