FOOTNOTES:
[46] Cf. Hors du Joug allemand, par Léon Daudet.
[47] The number for the entire year was 350.
[48] In the Daily Telegraph.
[49] Count Witte went farther and fixed the end of 1915 as the date.
[50] Bismarck: His Reflections and Reminiscences.
[51] My authority for the story is the principal observer, who was also an actor in a part of this subsidiary little drama: A. I. Markoff, who at that time represented the semi-official Russian Telegraph Agency, as its head correspondent in Berlin. He himself told me the story in Stockholm and authorized me to make it known.