140
By Franz von Liszt

TWO POOR LITTLE BELGIAN FLEDGLINGS 143
By Pierre Loti

WHAT THE GERMANS DESIRE 144
By Gustaf Sioesteen

ADDRESS TO KING ALBERT OF BELGIUM 147
By Emile Verhaeren

FORESHADOWING A NEW PHASE OF WAR 148
By Lloyd George, British Chancellor of the Exchequer

BRITAIN'S UNSHEATHED SWORD 153
By H.H. Asquith, England's Prime Minister

SWEDEN'S SCANDINAVIAN LEADERSHIP (With Map) 160
By a Swedish Political Expert

FROM ENGLAND (Poem) 164
By Maurice Hewlett

WAR CORRESPONDENCE 165

THE DRAGON'S TEETH (Poem) 181
By Caroline Duer

THE GREATEST OF CAMPAIGNS (With Map) 182
The French Official Account

BY THE NORTH SEA (Poem) 185
By W.L. Courtney

WHEN MARTHE CHENAL SANG THE "MARSEILLAISE" 187
By Wythe Williams

A WAR OF COMMERCE TO FOLLOW 189
By Sir William Ramsay

BELGIUM (Poem) 192
By Edith Wharton

DESIRED PEACE TERMS FOR EUROPE 193
By Proponents for the Allies and for Germany

THE BRITISH VOLUNTEERS (Poem) 195
By Katherine D.M. Simons, Jr.

CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR 196

[Illustration: H.M. HUSSEIN KEMAL

The New Sultan of Egypt, Which Was Recently Declared a British
Protectorate]

[Illustration: THE RUSSIAN ROYAL FAMILY

The Children of the Czar Have Inherited the Regal Beauty of Their Mother

(Photo from Paul Thompson)]

The New York Times

CURRENT HISTORY

A MONTHLY MAGAZINE

THE EUROPEAN WAR

APRIL, 1915

Germany's War Zone and Neutral Flags

The German Decree and Interchange of Notes Answering American Protests
to Germany and Britain

_BERLIN, Feb. 4, (by wireless to Sayville, L.I.)--The German
Admiralty today issued the following communication:_

The waters around Great Britain and Ireland, including the whole English
Channel, are declared a war zone on and after Feb. 1