humanity."

_New York Tribune,
April 7, 1917._

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CONTENTS

PREFACE

CHAPTER

I. MOBILIZATION OF PUBLIC OPINION
II. "PIRATES SINK ANOTHER NEUTRAL SHIP"
III. THE GULF BETWEEN KIEL AND BERLIN
IV. THE HATE CAMPAIGN AGAINST AMERICA
V. THE DOWNFALL OF VON TIRPITZ AND VON FALKENHAYN
VI. THE PERIOD OF NEW ORIENTATION
VII. THE BUBBLING ECONOMIC VOLCANO
VIII. THE PEACE DRIVE OF DECEMBER 12TH
IX. THE BERNHARDI OF THE SEAS
X. THE OUTLAWED NATION
XI. THE UNITED STATES AT WAR
XII. PRESIDENT WILSON

APPENDIX

ILLUSTRATIONS

A DOCUMENT CIRCULATED BY "THE LEAGUE OF TRUTH"--THE RED BLOODY HAND ON
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE . . . Frontispiece

FIRST PAGE OF THE AUTHOR'S PASSPORT

A "BERLIN" EXTRA

BLOOD-TRAFFICKERS

FIRST PAGE OF THE MAGAZINE "LIGHT AND TRUTH"

AN ANTI-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA DOCUMENT

GOTT STRAFE ENGLAND

THIS IS THE PHOTOGRAPH OF VON HINDENBURG WHICH EVERY GERMAN HAS IN HIS
HOME

THE FOOD SITUATION AT A GLANCE

THE POPE TO PRESIDENT WILSON----"HOW CAN MY PEACE ANGEL FLY, MR.
PRESIDENT, WHEN YOU ALWAYS PUT SHELLS IN HER POCKETS?"

"GOD WILL NOT PERMIT THE GERMAN PEOPLE TO GO DOWN"

THE NEW WEATHER CAPE

CHART SHOWING TONNAGE OF SHIPS SUNK BY GERMAN SUBMARINES FROM REAR
ADMIRAL HOLLWEG'S BOOK

AN ADVERTISEMENT IN THE BERLIN "DEUTSCHE TAGES-ZEITUNG" FOR THE
BOOK--"PRESIDENT BLUFF" MEANING PRESIDENT WILSON

THE KAISER'S NEW YEAR ORDER TO THE ARMY AND NAVY

SCHWAB TO MR. WILSON--"FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, GREAT LITTLE LEADER, THE
WHOLE PLACE WILL BLOW UP IF YOU SMOKE HERE!"

"THE NEW OLD PRESIDENT. LONG LIVE AMERICA! LONG LIVE PEACE! LONG
LIVE THE AMMUNITION FACTORIES!"

THE WILSON WILL

THE AUTHOR'S CARD OF ADMISSION TO THE REICHSTAG ON APRIL 5TH, 1916

AMBASSADOR GERARD ARRIVING IN PARIS

A POST-CARD FROM GENERAL VON KLUCK

GERMANY, THE NEXT REPUBLIC?

CHAPTER I

MOBILIZATION OF PUBLIC OPINION

I

The Haupttelegraphenamt (the Chief Telegraph Office) in Berlin is the
centre of the entire telegraph system of Germany. It is a large, brick
building in the Franzoesischestrasse guarded, day and night, by
soldiers. The sidewalks outside the building are barricaded. Without
a pass no one can enter. Foreign correspondents in Berlin, when they
had telegrams to send to their newspapers, frequently took them from
the Foreign Offic