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