Produced by Juliet Sutherland, David Gundry and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net [Transcriber's Note: Table of Contents and List of Illustrations have been compiled by the transcriber.] CURRENT HISTORY: THE EUROPEAN WAR FROM THE BEGINNING TO MARCH 1915 "WHO BEGAN THE WAR, AND WHY?" * * * * * Published by the _New York Times_ * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS. * * * * * WHO BEGAN THE WAR, AND WHY? THE CASE FOR GERMANY * * * * * SPEECHES BY KAISER WILHELM II. FORGIVES ENEMIES. SPEECH FROM THE THRONE. TO THE GERMAN ARMY AND NAVY. "TO THE LAST BREATH OF MAN AND HORSE." TO GERMAN WOMEN. JOY IN GLORIOUS VICTORY. FIRST SUCCESSFUL BATTLE. A PRAYER FOR VICTORY. "UP AND AT THE FOES." ON VICTORY NEAR METZ. THE SPIRIT OF THE MEN. HIS INDISCRETION WAS "CALCULATED." WILHELM II.'S LETTER TO LORD TWEEDMOUTH. The Mighty Fate of Europe "YOUR HEARTS FOR GOD, YOUR FISTS ON THE ENEMY." AS ONE MAN FOR THE KAISER. DECLARES FOR WAR. STATEMENT TO AMERICA. GERMANY'S ARMAMENTS. Austria-Hungary's Version of the War MANIFESTO. DECLARATION OF WAR. "DAYS OF WORLD'S HISTORY." WILL OF WILHELM II. THAT SWUNG THE SWORD. A PURELY DEFENSIVE WAR. A DISCORDANT NOTE. A German Review of the Evidence I. THE RUSSIAN MOBILIZATION II. GREY'S OMISSIONS AND ERRORS III. THE AGREEMENT WITH FRANCE IV. BELGIAN NEUTRALITY "Truth About Germany" HOW THE WAR CAME ABOUT. REICHSTAG AND EMPEROR. THE GERMAN MOBILIZATION. ARMY AND NAVY. THE ATTITUDES OF GERMANY'S ENEMIES. LIES ABOUT GERMANY. GERMANY AND THE FOREIGNER. COMMERCE AND TRADE RELATIONS WHO IS TO BE VICTORIOUS? Speculations About Peace, September, 1914 * * * * * WHO BEGAN THE WAR, AND WHY? CASE FOR THE TRIPLE ENTENTE * * * * * FIRST WARNINGS OF EUROPE'S PERIL Speeches by British Ministers "A CLOUD OVER EUROPE." AUSTRO-SERVIAN CRISIS. A GRAVE SITUATION. RISK OF A CATASTROPHE. OPPOSITION CONCURS. PEACE THE GREAT OBJECT. RUSSIA'S MOBILIZATION. THE GERMAN INVASION. PEACE OF EUROPE CANNOT BE PRESERVED. Sir Edward Grey - House of Commons - Aug. 3. GERMANY AND BELGIUM. UNHESITATING SUPPORT. CHANGED IRISH FEELING. GREAT BRITAIN'S ULTIMATUM TO GERMANY. PENETRATION OF BELGIAN TERRITORY. Great Britain's Mobilization KING TO BRITAIN'S FLEET. NAPOLEONISM ONCE AGAIN. PACT OF TRIPLE ENTENTE. A COUNTERSTROKE. IMPERIAL MESSAGE TO THE BRITISH DOMINIONS. 438,000 MEN RECRUITED. EARL KITCHENER'S SPEECH ON RECRUITS PARLIAMENT PROROGUED.