The Summer of 1916 saw the Germans defeated at Verdun on the Somme and at Riga. The Austrians were defeated in the Trentino and the Bukovina. The Turks continued their retreat in Asia Minor and the Caucasus, while the Entente Allies advanced upon the Bulgarians from Saloniki. [Illustration] _CIVILISATION_: "_WHAT IS THE VERDICT._" * * * * * The Government has carried on the war in accordance with methods which are even incompatible with everything which has been done hitherto--the violation of Belgium and Luxemburg; the use of poison gases, which were subsequently used by the other belligerents; there were Zeppelin bombs which killed both combatants and noncombatants, a submarine war on commerce, the torpedoing of the _Lusitania_, etc.; pillage and extortion of tribute, beginning with Belgium; the internment and imprisonment of the population of the eastern provinces; various devices for forcing prisoners to work against their own country, by spying for the Central Powers, thereby committing an act of high treason; contracts arranged between Zimmermann and Sir Roger Casement in December, 1915, for the formation of armed units of English prisoners of war, for the purpose of forming the Irish brigade. Besides these, other attempts must be mentioned, which were made among the foreigners in concentration camps in Germany, threatening them with internment unless they betrayed their own countries and placed themselves at Germany's disposal. KARL LIEBKNECHT. _June, 1916_. [Illustration] _TO THE END_ _War and Hunger_: "_Now you must accompany us to the end._" _The Kaiser_: "_Yes, to my end._" [Illustration] _THE CONFEDERATES_ "_Did they believe that peace story in the Reichstag, Bethmann?_" "_Yes, but the Allies didn't._" * * * * *