War, Russo-Turkish, 10; World, 18, 57, 72, 74, 81, 161, 162, 186, 207, 227, 255, 257, 260, 295, 299, 301, 303, 312, 316, 317, 322, 325, 327, 331, 333; of 1870, 60; Russo-Japanese, 79, 106, 200, 201, 249, 299; Boer, 83, 86, 90, 91, 92, 118 n., 223, 234, 299, 324; Boxer, 93; Seven Years', 121; English declaration of, 134; Balkan, 164; causes of the World, 304; of 1914 a consequence of the War of 1870, 325; civil, in Germany, 286, 288-289, 294, 298, 320. Warsaw, 136. "Welfare work" at the German Court, 45. Werner, Admiral Reinhold, 184. Westphalian coal strike, 36-37. "White Drawing Room," 172. "White men together against colored men," 79. Wied, Prince William of, and the Albanian throne, 165-169; selects an English and an Italian secretary, 167. Wiesbaden, 178, 179, 180, 181. Wilhelmshafen, 87, 248. Wilhelmstrasse, 249. William I, 176, 326. William the Great, 8, 14, 16, 22, 25, 39, 40, 63, 176, 201. Wilmowski, His Excellency von, 25. Wilpert, Monsignor, 218. Wilson, President, against Germany in 1915, 75; notes to by Germany, 277; armistice note of, 278; unfriendly answer of, 316; unprecedented powers, 318; his Fourteen Points, 318; and the English blockade, 318; double dealing, 319; unreliability of, 319; gigantic wrong done Germany, 319; trapped by Lloyd George and Clemenceau, 319; flagrant breach of faith, 320; first to demand withdrawal of reigning dynasty, 320; Kaiser convinced reasons were good, 320; President's heavy guilt, 321. Windthorst, Ludwig, 33. Winterfeldt, General Henry von, 286. Wittenberg, Schloss Church at, 214. Wittich, General Adolf von, 23. Witu, 55. Wolter, Archabbot, 216. Women, American, 318, 319. World, Anglo-Saxon, 308. Worthley, General Stewart, 117. Württemberg, 153. Y Yacht Club, Imperial, 46. Yangtse Treaty, 94. "Yellow peril," 79, 80, 81. "You will take back Alsace-Lorraine," 252. Z Zanzibar, 55, 56. Zedlitz, Count, 58. * * * * * Transcriber's note: Apparent punctuation errors were corrected and inconsistencies were made consistent. Footnotes have been moved to ends of chapters; index entries may refer to footnotes' original page numbers. Alternate spellings "Skagerrak," "Skager-Rak," and "Skagaraak" retained as in the original text. Alternate spellings "Wilhelmshafen" and "Wilhelmshaven" retained as in the original text. Alternate spellings "Wilhelm" and "William" retained as in the original text. Page 17: "vout" changed to "veut" (elle veut sa revanche) Page 18: "ou" changed to "où," as in the original German version (Le moment où il réfusait) Page 18: "at" changed to "et," as in the original German version (et je ne lui ai jamais) Page 18: "sur" changed to "sûr," as in the original German version (car j'étais sûr)