TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE * Italics are denoted by underscores as in _italics_, and small caps are represented in upper case as in SMALL CAPS. * Obvious printer errors have been silently corrected. * Errata emendations have been inserted into their proper places in the text. * Some maps and illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs and lie near the text they illustrate. THE TWO MAPS OF EUROPE THE TWO MAPS OF EUROPE AND SOME OTHER ASPECTS OF THE GREAT WAR BY HILAIRE BELLOC LONDON C. ARTHUR PEARSON LIMITED HENRIETTA STREET, W.C. 1915 _Printed by_ BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO. LTD. _At the Ballantyne Press_ LONDON AND EDINBURGH CONTENTS PAGE THE TWO MAPS OF EUROPE 9 NUMBERS IN WAR 31 SUPPLY 55 WAR TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY 75 WHAT TO BELIEVE IN WAR NEWS 99 WHAT THE WAR HAS TAUGHT US 115 FOREWORD The six chapters of this little book discuss and explain six separate and most important phases of the present war. Every effort has been made to deal with the headings selected as comprehensively and as simply as possible, and it is hoped that, in this convenient form, the handbook will be welcomed by those who wish to follow the campaign with understanding. The various articles reprinted were written during the winter of the present year (1914-15), and many of the conclusions reached apply, therefore, to that period of the war only. ERRATA _Page_ 38, _line_ 17, 400 _should read_ 500. „ „ 5000 „ „ 4000. _Page_ 42, Description of Map, _line_ 3, 400 _should read_ 500. THE TWO MAPS OF EUROPE _Wherein the map of Europe, as it will be if Germany wins, is clearly defined and compared with the map of Europe re-arranged in accordance with the ideals of the Allies._ THE TWO MAPS OF EUROPE It is everywhere admitted that the result of the great war must be either, upon the whole, to produce a new map of Europe upon the German model, or a new map of Europe upon the model suitable to the ideas of the Allies. By this it is not meant that either ideal will be completely reached, but that in the settlement one or the other will certainly preponderate. Indeed, it is in the struggle between these two new maps of Europe as ideals that the motive of the war consists. Now, before attempting to determine in a graphic fashion what those two ideals are--before, that is, trying to draw two maps which shall represent respectively the German goal and the goal of the Allies, we must lay down certain postulates which are not always recognized but which are certainly true. Unless we recognize their truth we shall come to accept wild statements, and to be frightened of those ridiculous prophecies which propose the extermination of Germany on the one hand, or the rule of the German government over England or France on the other.