en able to duplicate, and which an inspection of the local
newspapers has proved to have passed unmentioned by them and unnoticed
by the inhabitants. As she was considered a prey to be dealt with at
once and at all cost, the invasion of her territory was effected
through Belgium, and that invasion, entailing on the Belgian and
French populations untold misery, still continues.

It still continues; not for very long, a day will soon dawn which will
be the day of Justice.

I have the honor to be, dear Sir,
Sincerely yours,
JUSSERAND.

The Editor
_Collier's Weekly_,
NEW YORK.

KAISERLICH DEUTSCHE BOTSCHAFT

GERMAN EMBASSY

WASHINGTON, D. C.

NEW YORK, August 28, 1916.

P. F. COLLIER & SON,
Publishers.

DEAR SIRS:

With reference to previous conversations I beg to send you the
enclosed statement for the "Story of the Great War". It has been
written by Baron Mumm von Schwarzenstein, former Ambassador to Japan,
now attached to the Foreign Office in Berlin.

Yours very sincerely,
F. BERNSTORFF.

WHAT HAS GERMANY ACHIEVED IN TWO YEARS OF WAR?

In order to appreciate what Germany has accomplished during two years
of war, one has to recall to mind the great expectations which her
enemies had attached to this war, into which their powerful coalition,
after years of political scheming and thorough military preparations,
had enmeshed the prosperous Empire.

At the outset, the avowed purpose of Germany's enemies was to
annihilate her,--her army, her fleet, her commerce and her industry.
France hoped to regain Alsace Lorraine and the western bank of the
Rhine. Russia expected to gratify her desire for territorial expansion
by conquering the provinces of East and West Prussia and Posen, which
probably were to receive the blessings of Russian culture.
Austria-Hungary was to be dismembered; the Balkan states were to be
rendered tributary to the Czar; Constantinople and the Dardanelles
were to be added to the Romanoff's dominions. As for England, she
deliberately entered this war because she thought that she would run
small risk in helping to bring the war to a speedy termination.

The world will remember the vainglorious way in which Germany's
enemies foretold that before lo