Balbo, Cesare, on the "Hope of Italy," [125]
Balkan States: Alliance of Bulgaria, Servia, Greece, and Montenegro against Turkey, [263]; Russian and Austro-Hungarian joint note to the States, [268]; war declared by Montenegro, October 8, 1912, [270]; causes of Turkish disasters, [279]; story of the Thracian campaign, [283-293]; capture of Kirk Kilissé and battle of Lulé Burgas, [285-289]; Bulgarians halt at Tchatalja, [290]; Servian and Greek successes, [293-300]; conditions of armistice, signed December 3d, [302]; failure of first peace conference, [308]; mediation of the Great Powers accepted, [316]; terms of the Treaty of London, which ended war, [316]; rupture between the Balkan allies, [319-329]; disputes over division of the spoil bring on second Balkan War, [321-327]; treachery of the Bulgarians at Salonika, [330-334]; Servian and Greek successes, [333-337]; Rumania intervenes against Bulgaria, [338]; Montenegro supports Servia, [341]; Bulgaria humiliated, and new map for the Balkan peninsula made by the Treaty of Bukarest, [343-350]
Banca di Roma in Tripoli, [243]
Belgian neutrality violated by Germany, August 3, 1914, [397]
Belgium, Germany's ultimatum to, [405]; the reply, [407]
Bethmann-Hollweg, von, German Chancellor, [10]; his arbitrary ruling forbidding discussion of the Polish lands question in the Reichstag, rebuked, [114]; his disregard for parliamentary opinion in the German Confederation, [115]; his notes to London, Paris, and Petrograd on the Servian ultimatum, [391]; tries to bargain for Great Britain's neutrality at the expense of France, but fails, [404]; his explanation in the Reichstag for Germany's violation of neutrality, [409]
Bismarck, in the Congress of Berlin, [26]; indifferent to the Eastern Question, [27]; concerned chiefly with internal problems, [28]; inaugurates new German colonial policy by annexations in Africa, [41]; purchases Russian neutrality in 1870, [137-8]
Bosnia-Herzegovina, under the rule of Austria-Hungary, [148-155]; how their annexation was effected despite the protests of England, Russia, Turkey, and Servia, [368-371]
Bülow, von, German Chancellor, on the Moroccan situation in 1906, [74]
Bulgaria, aspirations in Macedonia, [168-173,176-8], [207]; alliance with Greece, [231], [237-8], [265]; in the Balkan War, [275-293]; attitude towards Servia and Greece after the Treaty of London, [321-7]; fights her former allies, [328-40]; loses Adrianople again to Turks, [349]