Allied Nations in the War.—The following countries were at war with Germany at the given dates:
| Russia | 1 | August, | 1914 |
| France | 3 | August, | 1914 |
| Belgium | 3 | August, | 1914 |
| Great Britain | 4 | August, | 1914 |
| Servia | 6 | August, | 1914 |
| Montenegro | 9 | August, | 1914 |
| Japan | 23 | August, | 1914 |
| San Marino | 24 | May, | 1915 |
| Portugal | 9 | March, | 1916 |
| Italy | 28 | August, | 1916 |
| Roumania | 28 | August, | 1916 |
| U. S. A. | 6 | April, | 1917 |
| Cuba | 7 | April, | 1917 |
| Panama | 10 | April, | 1917 |
| Greece | 29 | June, | 1917 |
| Siam | 22 | July, | 1917 |
| Liberia | 4 | August, | 1917 |
| China | 14 | August, | 1917 |
| Brazil | 26 | October, | 1917 |
| Ecuador | 8 | December, | 1917 |
| Guatemala | 23 | April, | 1918 |
| Haiti | 15 | July, | 1918 |
The following countries broke off diplomatic relations with Germany:
| Bolivia | April 13, | 1917 |
| Nicaragua | May 18, | 1917 |
| Santo Domingo | ||
| Costa Rica | Sept. 21, | 1917 |
| Peru | October 6, | 1917 |
| Uruguay | October 7, | 1917 |
| Honduras | July 22, | 1918 |
Alsace-Lorraine.
Alsace-Lorraine.—Dr. E. J. Dillon, the distinguished political writer and student of European problems, in a remarkable article printed long before the end of the war, called attention to the general misunderstanding that prevails regarding Alsace-Lorraine. He said that the two houses of the Legislature in Strasburg made a statement through their respective speakers which, “however skeptically it may be received by the allied countries, is thoroughly relied upon by Germany as a deciding factor” in the vexatious question affecting those provinces.
The president of the second chamber, Dr. Ricklin (former mayor of Dammerkirch, then occupied by the French), declared solemnly in the presence of the Stadthalter that the two provinces, while desiring modification of their status within the German empire, also desired their perpetuation of their present union with it.... “The people of Alsace-Lorraine in its overwhelming majority did not desire war, and therefore did not desire this war. What it strove for was the consummation of its political status in the limits of its dependenceupon the German empire, and that settled, to resume its peaceful avocations. In this respect the war has changed nothing in our country. We make this confession aloud and before all the world. May it be everywhere heard, and may peace be speedily vouchsafed us.”
“The speaker of the First Chamber, Dr. Hoeffel,” continues Dr. Dillon, “also made a pronouncement of a like tenor, of which this is the pith: ‘Alsace-Lorraine particularly has felt how heavily the war presses upon us all, but selfless sacrifice is here, too, taken for granted. Our common task has knit the imperial provinces more closely together than before, and has also drawn more tightly their links with the German Empire.’”