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.

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