Two questions unsolved.-Can Germany win?-How

long will the war last?-Allies have gained initiative.-

Can Germans stand adversity?

RUMANIA HESITATES

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Bewildering vacillation.-Reasons for and against her

joining the war.-Must soon decide.

JAPAN AND RUSSIA IN ALLIANCE

Another of many international agreements.-Each gov-

ernment to support the other's foreign policies.-How

it may affect Asia and Europe.

THE BALKAN TURMOIL

Coming conflict between Allied forces in Greece and the

Teuton-Bulgar armies.-Rumania joins.-Complications

in Greece.

THE BALKAN MESSAGE

Rumania declares war.-Beginning of long fore-

shadowed struggle for the Balkans.-Effect upon

Greece.

GREECE "KEPT OUT OF WAR"

Long conflict between King Constantine and Venizelos.

-Betrayal of Servia.-Intervention of the Allies.-

Government yields territory to Bulgaria.-Nation

prostrate.

A REAL OFFENSIVE

Battle of the Somme in eleventh week.-Germans long

ago boasted it had ended.-Purpose is not to "break

thru."-Signs of weakening German power.

THE BATTLE OF DEMOCRACY

Shall autocracy or democracy rule the world?-Latter

always weak in war at first.-Battle of the Somme

shows that free peoples can organize for defense.-A

war of irreconcilable ideals.

ISHMAEL AWAKES

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Arabs declare their independence of Turkish rule.-His-

tory of the race.-Repudiate sultan as head of Islam.

American inventions dominate the war.-Tanks.--Tor-
pedoes.-Submarine.—Aeroplanes.—Machine guns.

Battle of the Marne shattered the German plan and
presaged German defeat.-Story of the momentous con-
flict. One of the "decisive" battles of the world.

ISOLATING AMERICA

Allies mistrust and condemn this nation's policy.-

Utterances by President Wilson that have created

deplorable impressions in Europe.

THE BATTLE OF DECISION

The Somme campaign.—Results not shown in ground

gained, but in superiority established.-German retire-

ment an inevitable effect.

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Submarine raid near American coast. The "com-
mercial" U-boat Deutschland a test.-This country not
"isolated."-Mistaken policy.

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SUBMARINE RIGHTS AND WRONGS

Was the raid near this coast "legally and humanely"

conducted?-Has the submarine all the rights of a sur-

face warship?—If so, has it not the same obligations?

CRETE MAKING HISTORY AGAIN

Balkan events more romantic than fiction.-Revolution

in Crete.-Scene of ancient civilizations.-One of pri-

mary causes of the war.

THE "LEGALIZED" SUBMARINE

Washington warns away Allied warships, welcomes

German submarines—U-53 and the raid from Newport.

-No protest made.

AN OMINOUS SITUATION

Controversy will become more acute.-Germany deter-

mined to use "ruthlessness.”—United States' policy

invites aggression.

ANOTHER YEAR OF WAR?

Nothing in military situation suggests early peace.-

Both sides still confident. Henceforth a test of endur-

ance, which will not be brief.

A BATTLE ANNIVERSARY

How Belgium saved Europe at the Yser.-A sanguinary

and heroic struggle.-German advance checked and

Channel ports protected.

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FRUITS OF A "VICTORY"

Sinking of steamship Marina.-The Deutschland and

the U-53.-Germany preparing to repudiate her pledges.

Youth of Servia, driven from homes by the Teuton
invasion, meet tragic fate.-Terrible march across plain
and mountains.

THE BALKAN BATTLES

Rumania invaded and in danger of conquest.—Allies'
capture of Monastir means little.-Germany clinching
her control of peninsula.

PEONAGE IN BELGIUM

Wholesale enslavement of the civilian population by the
Germans.-Savage methods employed to break the
nation's spirit and strengthen invader's armies.

SUBMARINE NEWS AND VIEWS

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Menace of more ruthless warfare becomes clearer.—
American official attitude hastening a crisis.

THE WAR BEGINS ANEW

Peace never seemed so remote as now.-Campaigns in
west and east.-Britain and France perturbed.—Ger-
many's drafting of all males into war work significant.

Compulsory service law, including all able-bodied men,
marks new epoch.-Will affect war and the future.-
A grim Utopia.

DIVIDED GREECE

Amazing complications.—Intervention of the Allies, and
its reasons.-Contest between king and political leader.
-Monarch may lose his throne.

GERMANY'S PEACE PROPOSAL

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A dramatic gesture.-Some controversial statements.-
What the "war map" shows.-Germany wants peace
because thus far she has won.-The Allies will not sur-
render.

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WHAT WILL BE THE ANSWER?

German offer gets two replies, in French drive near
Verdun and in rejection by Russian duma.-Allies'
terms already known. They should state that they
fight Prussianism, not the German people.

MAKING PEACE NOT SIMPLE

Arrangement of conference a difficult task.-Antago-
nisms are still bitter.-Conflicting aims make complex
issues.-Territorial and political adjustments concern
whole world.

MORE ABOUT PEACE

President Wilson's intervention.-Either marvelously
well-timed or appallingly indiscreet.-Some phrases
unfortunate.-Apparent indorsement of Germany's

demands.

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Conflicting explanations of the president's action.-His
plea inopportune and obscure.-United States drawing
nearer to war.

THE EXPLANATION

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Causes behind the president's note.-Secretary Lan-
sing's true interpretation and its disavowal.-This coun-
try's intervention foreshadowed.

STILL MORE CONFUSION

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Both groups of belligerents embittered by the presi-
dent's action.-Germany's refusal to state her terms.-
Intervention has not promoted peace.

NOT YET

Allies' reply to German peace offer.-Responsibility for
the war. "Penalties, reparation and guarantees"
demanded. Entente unity. · Conference proposal
rejected.

A DARKENING CLOUD

Submarine frightfulness Germany's alternative to her
peace offer.-Open threats made.-What U-Boats have
accomplished.-United States will be involved.

BACK TO SPARTA

National compulsory war service in Germany parallels
the policy of ancient kingdom.—A significant social
revolution.

GERMANY'S STUPENDOUS PRIZE.

How she has changed the map.-Control of the Danube
would give her domination of all Central and Eastern
Europe. A great highway of commerce and empire.

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Allies' reply to President Wilson.—Their terms of peace. CONFUSION OF TONGUES

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Complicated peace documents to be studied.—Con-
flicts and misunderstandings.-Where the Allies and
President Wilson differ.-No peace without justice.

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THE "GUILT OF BELGIUM" AGAIN

Germany still slandering her victim.-Manufactured
charges of duplicity put forth to excuse Prussian
crimes.

STRANGE VIEWS OF PEACE

Characteristic expressions of pro-Germanism and
pacifism.-Fallacy of a peace made by negotiating with
unbeaten Prussianism.-Mr. Balfour's forceful utter-

ance.

THE PEACE DICTATOR

President Wilson's remarkable speech to congress.
Obscure and illogical statements.-"Peace without Vic-
tory" a deplorable recommendation.

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