E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Linda Cantoni, Joshua Hutchinson, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 15478-h.htm or 15478-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/4/7/15478/15478-h/15478-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/4/7/15478/15478-h.zip) The New York Times CURRENT HISTORY A Monthly Magazine THE EUROPEAN WAR, VOLUME II April, 1915-September, 1915 With Index Number I, April 1915 [Illustration: [logo] THE N.Y. TIMES] New York The New York Times Company 1915 CONTENTS NUMBER I. APRIL, 1915. Page GERMANY'S WAR ZONE AND NEUTRAL FLAGS 1 The German Decree and Interchange of Notes GERMANY'S SUBMARINE WAR (With Map) 20 GERMAN PEOPLE NOT BLINDED 22 By Karl Lamprecht REVEILLE 24 By John Galsworthy CAN GERMANY BE STARVED OUT? 25 An Answer by Sixteen German Specialists HOCH DER KAISER (Poem) 28 By George Davies THE SUBMARINE OF 1578 29 THE TORPEDO (Poem) 30 By Katherine D.M. Simons, Jr. "GOD PUNISH ENGLAND, BROTHER" 31 A New Hymn of Germany's Gospel of Hatred THE GREAT HOUR (Poem) 32 By Hermann Sudermann THE PEACE OF THE WORLD 33 By H.G. Wells ZEPPELIN RAIDS ON LONDON (With Map) 46 By the Naval Correspondent of The London Times JULIUS CAESAR ON THE AISNE 48 SIR JOHN FRENCH'S OWN STORY (With Map) 49 Continuing the Famous Dispatches of the British Commander THE CATHEDRAL OF RHEIMS 60 By Emile Verhaeren MUSIC OF WAR 61 By Rudyard Kipling AMERICA AND A NEW WORLD STATE 63 By Norman Angell SIR CHRISTOPHER CRADOCK (Poem) 84 By John E. Dolson BATTLE OF THE SUEZ CANAL (With Map) 85 First-hand Account of the Turkish Invasion A FULL-FLEDGED SOCIALIST STATE 89 By J. Laurence Laughlin LETTERS FROM WIVES 92 "WAR CHILDREN" 92