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 15479-h.htm or 15479-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/4/7/15479/15479-h/15479-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/4/7/15479/15479-h.zip) The New York Times CURRENT HISTORY A Monthly Magazine THE EUROPEAN WAR, VOLUME II April, 1915-September, 1915 With Index Number II, May, 1915 [Illustration: (logo) THE N.Y. TIMES] New York The New York Times Company 1915 CONTENTS NUMBER II. MAY, 1915. Page GENERAL SIR JOHN FRENCH'S OWN STORY (With Map) 205 The Costly Victory of Neuve Chapelle ROBERTS OF KANDAHAR (Poem) 210 By Sidney Low THE SURRENDER OF PRZEMYSL (With Maps) 211 How Galicia's Strong Fortress Yielded to the Russian Siege THE JESTERS (Poem) 217 By Marion Couthouy Smith LORD KITCHENER ADVERTISES FOR RECRUITS 218 BATTLE OF THE DARDANELLES (With Map) 219 The Disaster that Befell the Allies' Fleet OFFICIAL STORY OF TWO SEA FIGHTS (With Maps) 223 BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND MORNING (Poem) 231 By Sir Owen Seaman THE GREATEST OF CAMPAIGNS (With Map) 232 The French Official Account Concluded SONNET ON THE BELGIAN EXPATRIATION 250 By Thomas Hardy WAR CORRESPONDENCE (With Map) 251 THE SPIRIT OF MANKIND 258 By Woodrow Wilson "WHAT THE GERMANS SAY ABOUT THEIR OWN METHODS OF WARFARE" 259 (With Facsimile Letters) By Professor Bedier of the College de France THE RECRUIT (Poem) 274 By Hortense Flexner AMERICAN REPLY TO BRITAIN'S BLOCKADE ORDER 275 By William J. Bryan GERMANY'S CONDITIONS OF PEACE 279 By Dr. Bernhard Dernburg THE ALLIES' CONDITIONS OF PEACE 282 By Sir Edward Grey SOUTH AFRICA'S ROMANTIC BLUE PAPER (With Map) 284 THE BELLS OF BERLIN (Poem) 289 From _Punch_ of London WARFARE AND BRITISH LABOR 290 By Earl Kitchener SAVIORS OF EUROPE 292 By Rene Bazin BRITAIN'S PERIL OF STRIKES AND DRINK 293 By Lloyd George ITALY'S EVOLUTION AS REFLECTED BY HER PRESS 301