The New York Times Current History - June, 1918 by NY Times

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Current History, Vol. VIII, No. 3, June 1918 A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times

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Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Wayne Hammond and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

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D501: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War I (1914-1918)

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World War, 1914-1918

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41479

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November 25, 2012

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.VISCOUNT MILNER — GENERAL SIR W. R. MARSHALL — CURRENT HISTORY — A Monthly Magazine of The New York Times
2. 2.TABLE OF CONTENTS
3. 3.ROTOGRAVURE ILLUSTRATIONS — CURRENT HISTORY CHRONICLED — Summary of War Activities — Sinn Fein Plot Frustrated — Foch's Army Comprises All Races of Earth — Meeting of the German and Austrian Emperors — The Prince Sixtus Letter — Attacks on Hospital Ships — Two More Latin-American Republics Aligned Against Germany — France's Second Treason Trial. — The City of Amiens. — The Rumanian Nation — The Hetman of the Ukraine — Precedents for a Separate Ulster. — Court-Martial in Italy. — American Trade Pact with Norway. — British Shipping Losses — Great Britain's War Expenses — Hatred Between Italians and Austrians — The Origin of the Irish
4. 4.Battles in Picardy and Flanders — Military Review of All Fronts from April 17 to May 18, 1918. — BATTLE FOR MONT KEMMEL — VON ARNIM'S EFFORTS — GERMAN ATTACKS ON THE LYS — THE ZEEBRUGGE RAID — ITALIAN RAID AT POLA — CHARLES M. SCHWAB — JOHN D. RYAN — TEUTONIZING THE BLACK SEA — IN THE NEAR EAST — ON THE ITALIAN FRONT — Premier Lloyd George on German Autocracy
5. 5.The Greatest Battle of the War — Second Month of the Desperate Fighting in Flanders and Picardy — By Philip Gibbs — THE GHASTLY LOSSES — BRITISH UNDER FIRE — FIGHTING FOR THE CANAL — THE BELGIAN VICTORY — Germans Cut Off — Heroism of the Doctors — Caring for the Wounded — Fall of Villers-Bretonneux — First German Tanks — The Night Battle — Great Piles of Dead — Battle for Kemmel Hill — Foe Strikes in Two Directions — Germans Under Von Arnim — The Country Devastated — Heavy German Losses — Desperate Fighting for Ypres — Enemy's Attacks Futile — French and British Valor — Deadly Machine-Gun Work — Brilliant French Fighters — The British Guards — Fought Back to Back — Carnage Near Locre — Other British Units in Danger — Under Constant Shellfire — Night of Horror for Germans — Preparing for Another Advance — "The Drums of Death" — Fritz Having a "Thin Time" — Tragic Desolation of Arras
6. 6.America's Sacrifice — By Harold Begbie
7. 7.GENERAL STAFF OFFICERS WITH PERSHING
8. 8.PROMINENT IN WAR ACTIVITIES
9. 9.American Soldiers in Battle — How They Repelled an Attack at Seicheprey and Fought in Picardy — IN THE PICARDY BATTLE — UNDER INTENSE FIRE — STORY OF CAREY EPISODE — STAFF CHANGES — HEALTH OF THE SOLDIERS
10. 10.Overseas Forces More Than Half a Million — Preparing for an Army of 3,000,000
11. 11.American Troops in Central France — By Laurence Jerrold
12. 12.American Shipbuilders Break All Records — Charles M. Schwab Speeds the Work
13. 13.Third Liberty Loan Oversubscribed — Approximately 17,000,000 Buyers
14. 14.Former War Loans of the United States — A Historical Retrospect — THE WAR OF 1812. — MEXICAN WAR LOANS — DEFICIT IN 1862 — SPANISH WAR LOANS
15. 15.American Labor Mission in Europe — War Aims of Organized Workers Conveyed to English and French Labor Unions — BRITISH SEAMEN'S ATTITUDE — NO PARLEYS WITH ENEMY LABOR
16. 16.Progress of the War — Recording Campaigns on All Fronts and Collateral Events From April 18, 1918, Up to and Including May 17, 1918 — SUBMARINE BLOCKADE — BARON STEPHAN BURIAN — LEADERS IN THE IRISH CONTROVERSY — CAMPAIGN IN WESTERN EUROPE — ITALIAN CAMPAIGN. — CAMPAIGN IN ASIA MINOR. — AERIAL RECORD. — NAVAL RECORD. — RUSSIA. — FINLAND. — RUMANIA. — POLAND. — MISCELLANEOUS.
17. 17.German Losses On All Fronts — One Estimate Reaches 5,600,000 — WESTERN FRONT
18. 18.Great Britain's Finances — Heavy War Taxes Levied — TAXES ON UNEARNED INCOME — TOTAL INCOME AND SUPER TAX — TAXES ON COMMODITIES — LUXURIES HEAVILY TAXED — AMERICA'S ASSISTANCE — THE TOTAL BRITISH DEBT — GERMANY'S WAR DEBT
19. 19.Trade After the War — Important Report by a Commission of British Experts and Economists — Transition Period — PROBLEM OF RAW MATERIALS — ALIENS IN BUSINESS — SPECIAL INDUSTRIES BOARD — TARIFF REGULATIONS — LIMITING PROTECTIVE PRINCIPLES
20. 20.Finland Under German Control — Events of the Period of Chaos and Foreign Invasion Preceding the Fall of Viborg — RED FINLAND — GERMAN HAND IN FINLAND — ATROCITIES ON BOTH SIDES — THE GERMAN INVASION — FALL OF VIBORG — UNDER GERMAN DOMINATION — GREATER FINLAND
21. 21.Peace Treaty Between Finland and Germany — Full Text of the Document
22. 22.German Aggression in Russia — Record of Events Placing Finland and the Ukraine More Fully Under Teutonic Control — INDUSTRY CRIPPLED — ENEMY PROPAGANDA — RUSSIA'S PROTEST — DISMEMBERING RUSSIA — ULTIMATUM ON PRISONERS — COUP IN THE UKRAINE — GERMAN PENETRATION — RUSSIA'S LOSSES
23. 23.More Bolshevist Legislation — By Abraham Yarmolinsky — CONTROLLING PRODUCTION — ECONOMIC REGULATION — LAND COMMITTEES — NO MORE LANDLORDS — COMPULSORY INSURANCE
24. 24.Lithuania's Efforts Toward Autonomy — By A. M. Martus — Germany to Impose "War Burdens" on Lithuania
25. 25.The Raid on Zeebrugge and Ostend — British Naval Exploit That Damaged Two German U-Boat Bases on the North Sea Coast — STORY OF THE FIGHTING — Landing on the Mole — Heroic Work on the Iris — BLOCKING THE CANAL — Main Object Attained — THE VINDICTIVE'S STORY — RESCUE FROM BLOCK SHIPS — ATTACKS AT OSTEND
26. 26.German U-Boat Claims — Address by Admiral von Capelle — LOSSES AND CONSTRUCTION — THE COMING MONTHS — THE STEEL QUESTION — "ENGLAND'S DANGER POINT" — The Admiral's Statements Attacked — OFFICIAL RETURNS OF LOSSES — The Month's Submarine Record
27. 27.A Secret Chapter of U-Boat History — How Ruthless Policy Was Adopted
28. 28.Sea-Raider Wolf and Its Victims — Story of Its Operations — CAPTURE OF THE MATUNGA — BETRAYED BY WIRELESS — IGOTZ MENDI TAKEN — RAIDER MEETS DISASTER
29. 29.Career and Fate of the Raider Seeadler — A German Adventure in the Pacific
30. 30.Treatment of British Prisoners — Shocking Brutalities in German War Prisons Revealed in an Official Report — "Prisoners of Respite" — Starved to Death — Some Merciful Guards — Flogged with Dog Whip — No Parcels or Letters — Extracts from Evidence — "Shot at Sight" — "Worked to the Bone" — Lives Made Unbearable
31. 31.American Prisoners Exploited
32. 32.Total Destruction of Rheims — By G. H. Perris
33. 33.The Abomination of Desolation — An Episode in France
34. 34.Lloyd George and General Maurice — A Speech in Which the Premier Routed His Enemies and Revealed Some Inside Facts — Extending the British Line — Shortage of Farm Labor — The War Cabinet's Decision — Clemenceau Suggested Versailles
35. 35.The New British Service Act — Provisions of Law Which Raises Military Age — RAISING OF MILITARY AGE — FORMER PRISONERS OF WAR — TIME-EXPIRED MEN — EXTENSION TO IRELAND — WITHDRAWAL OF EXEMPTIONS — THE TRIBUNALS — PENALTIES — MEDICAL EXAMINATION — VOLUNTEER OBLIGATION — CONVENTIONS WITH ALLIED STATES — EXCEPTIONS
36. 36.British Aid to Italy — General Plumer's Dispatch
37. 37.Emperor Charles's "Dear Sixtus" Letter — French Supplemental Statement Corroborates Its Authenticity
38. 38.THE ISSUES IN IRELAND — Official Report of the Irish Convention—Full Text of the Chairman's Summary of the Proceedings — THE CHAIRMAN'S SUMMARY — Sir Horace Plunkett's letter reads: — Adopting the Report — Ulster Issue Unsolved — Customs and Excise Problem — Parliament for All Ireland — Knottiest Question in History — THE MAJORITY REPORT — ULSTER UNIONISTS' REPORT — THE FINANCIAL ISSUE — GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE — CONSCRIPTION IN IRELAND
39. 39.Greatest Gas Attack of the War
40. 40.Plucky Dunkirk — By Anna Milo Upjohn — HOTEL IN DANGER ZONE — FIRST NIGHT'S EXPERIENCES — BRAVE LITTLE DUNKIRK — CITY OF SHATTERED HOMES — DODGING THE BOMBS — STILL A LIVELY PORT — BUSINESS UNDER DIFFICULTIES — A STAG AT BAY — "FOR ALL AMERICAN WOMEN"
41. 41.Brutal Treatment of Italian Prisoners
42. 42.Germany's Attempt to Divide Belgium — Official Summary of Recent Political Events in Flanders, Issued by the Belgian Foreign Office — GERMAN ACT OF SEPARATION — ALL BELGIUM PROTESTS — PROTESTS OF CITY COUNCILS — THE DELEGATES OSTRACIZED — FLEMISH QUESTION NOT NEW — SETTLING THE LANGUAGE ISSUE — RIGHTS OF FLEMISH TONGUE — BELGIAN PREMIER'S VIEW
43. 43.Stripping Belgian Industries — Germany's Use of the "Rathenau Plan" for the Exploitation of Belgium and Northern France — BRAND WHITLOCK'S STATEMENT — UNJUST FINES — PAYMENT WITHHELD — STRIPPING BELGIUM OF METALS — HAGUE REGULATIONS FLOUTED — GERMANY'S PROFITS — LANGHORNE'S DISPATCH — DESTRUCTION STILL GOING ON
44. 44.Spoliation of Belgian Churches — Cardinal Mercier's Protest
45. 45.Belgium's Appeal to the Bolsheviki
46. 46.Serbia's Hopes and Russia's Defection — By Nikola Pashitch — RUSSIA ALONE DECEIVED — RUSSIAN LIBERTY DESTROYED — A SHAMEFUL CATASTROPHE — AMERICANS TO THE BREACH — SERBIA STILL FAITHFUL
47. 47.Rumania's Peace Treaty — Why the Onerous Terms of the Central Powers Had to be Accepted — DESERTED BY RUSSIA — AN IMPERIOUS SUMMONS — THREE HUNGRY ENEMIES — GERMANY'S SHARE OF BOOTY
48. 48.The Peace of Bucharest — Synopsis of Rumania's Peace Treaty — THE KAISER EXULTS
49. 49.Bessarabia Voluntarily United to Rumania
50. 50.The War and the Bagdad Railway — A Study by Dr. Morris Jastrow
51. 51.LICHNOWSKY'S MEMORANDUM — Von Jagow's Replies to the Prince's Revelations—Further German Comments
52. 52.Von Jagow's Two Replies to Lichnowsky — Friendly to England
53. 53.Full Text of von Jagow's First Reply — Colonial Questions — Russia and Germany — Grey Conciliatory — The "Wily" Venizelos — Defense of Archduke — Blame for Russia — "Wrong" Conclusions
54. 54.German Comments on von Jagow's Views — Thanks for Hindenburg — How Manuscript Became Public
55. 55.Lichnowsky's Testimony as to Germany's Long Plotting for Domination — By H. Charles Woods, F. R. G. S. — Phases of German Policy — Preparing for Pan-German Project — The Turco-German Entente — Fruits of the Balkan Wars — Promoting Balkan Discord — German Power in Turkey
56. 56.THE EUROPEAN WAR AS SEEN BY CARTOONISTS — Gott Mit Uns — Signing the Russian Peace — Peace in Russia — The Russian Revolution — A Threat from the Orient — The Yellow Peril — Camouflage — The Kaiser's "Alte Gott" — Prussianism — Enough to Make a Dead Man Laugh — The End of Their Perfect Day — The Price — Postponed — Rough Going — Now You're Shoutin', Newton! — Hohenzollern "Victory" — The Follies of 1918 — The Line Blocked — German Peace Methods — On the Field of Honor — A French Counterattack — The Fate of Holland's Ships — In Paris on Good Friday — Germany's Lost Colonies — Hitting Him Where He Lives — The Battle of Picardy — On the Western Front — A Test of Endurance — The New Waxworks Group for the German Museum
57. 57.FOOTNOTES. — Transcriber's notes:

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