Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Moti Ben-Ari and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. [Illustration: PRESIDENT WILSON The first portrait of President Wilson since America entered the war, taken at the White House March 19, 1918 (© _Sun Printing and Publishing Association_)] [Illustration: FERDINAND FOCH Generalissimo of the allied armies on the western front] CURRENT HISTORY _A Monthly Magazine of_ =The New York Times= Published by The New York Times Company, Times Square, New York, N. Y. Vol. VIII.} No. 2 25 Cents a Copy Part I. } May, 1918 $3.00 a Year TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE CURRENT HISTORY CHRONICLED 191 THE BATTLE OF PICARDY: A Military Review 197 The British Reverses and Their Causes By a Military Observer 205 FOUR EPIC WEEKS OF CARNAGE By Philip Gibbs 209 How General Carey Saved Amiens 219 Battle Viewed From the French Front By G. H. Perris 221 Caring for Thousands of Refugees 228 PROGRESS OF THE WAR: Chronology to April 18 231 RUSSIA UNDER GERMAN DOMINATION 235 The Czar's Loyalty to the Allies: An Autograph Letter 239 PERSHING'S ARMY UNDER GENERAL FOCH 240 Our War Machine in New Phases 243 Shortage in Aircraft Production 245 AMERICA'S FIRST YEAR OF WAR 247 War Department's Improved System By Benedict Crowell 254 The Surgeon General's Great Organization By Caswell A. Mayo 256 WAR WORK OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSS 258 GREAT BRITAIN FACES A CRISIS By David Lloyd George 263 RUSSIA AND THE ALLIES By Arthur J. Balfour 272 PRESIDENT WILSON ON THE RUSSIAN TREATIES 275 AMERICAN LIBERTY'S CRUCIAL HOUR By William E. Borah 278 _Contents Continued on Next Page_ Copyright, 1918, by The New York Times Company. All Rights Reserved. Entered at the Post Offices in New York and in Canada as Second Class Matter. DEFENDING THE WORLD'S RIGHT TO DEMOCRACY By J. Hamilton Lewis 281 Messenger Dogs in the German Army 283 FULL RECORD OF SINKINGS BY U-BOATS By Sir Eric Geddes 284 Admiralty Summary of Shipping Losses 286 The Month's Submarine Record 289