THE NEW BRITISH SERVICE ACT 491 British Aid to Italy: General Plumer's Report 492 EMPEROR CHARLES'S "DEAR SIXTUS" LETTER 494 THE ISSUES IN IRELAND: Report of the Irish Convention 496 Greatest Gas Attack of the War 504 PLUCKY DUNKIRK By Anna Milo Upjohn 505 GERMANY'S ATTEMPT TO DIVIDE BELGIUM 511 STRIPPING BELGIAN INDUSTRIES: The Rathenau Plan 516 Spoliation of Belgian Churches: Cardinal Mercier's Protest 523 Belgium's Appeal to the Bolsheviki 525 SERBIA'S HOPES AND RUSSIA'S DEFECTION By Nicholas Pashitch 526 RUMANIA'S PEACE TREATY 529 Summary of the Peace of Bucharest 531 Bessarabia Voluntarily United to Rumania 535 THE WAR AND THE BAGDAD RAILWAY By Dr. Morris Jastrow 536 LICHNOWSKY'S MEMORANDUM 539 Full Text of von Jagow's Reply 541 German Comments on von Jagow's Views 545 Germany's Long Plotting for Domination By H. Charles Woods 548 THE EUROPEAN WAR AS SEEN BY CARTOONISTS: 31 Cartoons 551 ROTOGRAVURE ILLUSTRATIONS VISCOUNT MILNER _Frontis_ GENERAL SIR W. R. MARSHALL " CHARLES M. SCHWAB 394 JOHN D. RYAN 395 STAFF OFFICERS WITH PERSHING 410 LEADERS IN WAR ACTIVITIES 411 BARON STEPHAN BURIAN 426 LEADERS IN IRISH CONTROVERSY 427 BRITISH WAR LEADERS 458 FRENCH AND AMERICAN TANKS 459 AMERICAN REGIMENT IN FRANCE 474 FRENCH CHATEAU IN RUINS 475 MARCHING TO THE FRONT 506 HARVARD REGIMENT IN BOSTON 507 TRAFALGAR SQUARE IN WARTIME 522 TYPICAL SCENE IN FLANDERS 523 CURRENT HISTORY CHRONICLED [PERIOD ENDED MAY 19, 1918.] SUMMARY OF WAR ACTIVITIES