TABLE OF CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| CURRENT HISTORY CHRONICLED | [191] | |
| THE BATTLE OF PICARDY: A Military Review | [197] | |
| The British Reverses and Their Causes | By a Military Observer | [205] |
| FOUR EPIC WEEKS OF CARNAGE | By Philip Gibbs | [209] |
| How General Carey Saved Amiens | [219] | |
| Battle Viewed From the French Front | By G. H. Perris | [221] |
| Caring for Thousands of Refugees | [228] | |
| PROGRESS OF THE WAR: Chronology to April 18 | [231] | |
| RUSSIA UNDER GERMAN DOMINATION | [235] | |
| The Czar's Loyalty to the Allies: An Autograph Letter | [239] | |
| PERSHING'S ARMY UNDER GENERAL FOCH | [240] | |
| Our War Machine in New Phases | [243] | |
| Shortage in Aircraft Production | [245] | |
| AMERICA'S FIRST YEAR OF WAR | [247] | |
| War Department's Improved System | By Benedict Crowell | [254] |
| The Surgeon General's Great Organization | By Caswell A. Mayo | [256] |
| WAR WORK OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSS | [258] | |
| GREAT BRITAIN FACES A CRISIS | By David Lloyd George | [263] |
| RUSSIA AND THE ALLIES | By Arthur J. Balfour | [272] |
| PRESIDENT WILSON ON THE RUSSIAN TREATIES | [275] | |
| AMERICAN LIBERTY'S CRUCIAL HOUR | By William E. Borah | [278] |
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| Copyright, 1918, by The New York Times Company. All Rights Reserved. | ||
| Entered at the Post Offices in New York and in Canada as Second Class Matter. | ||
| CONTENTS—Continued | ||
| DEFENDING THE WORLD'S RIGHT TO DEMOCRACY | By J. Hamilton Lewis | [281] |
| Messenger Dogs in the German Army | [283] | |
| FULL RECORD OF SINKINGS BY U-BOATS | By Sir Eric Geddes | [284] |
| Admiralty Summary of Shipping Losses | [286] | |
| The Month's Submarine Record | [289] | |
| TYPICAL U-BOAT METHODS: British Admiralty Records | [290] | |
| The Story of an Indomitable Captain | By Joseph Conrad | [292] |
| THE NAVAL DEFENSE OF VENICE | [293] | |
| Venice Under the Grim Shadow | [299] | |
| TAKING OVER THE DUTCH SHIPS | [303] | |
| AIR RAIDS ON PARIS AND LONDON | [305] | |
| The Tale of Zeppelin Disasters | [309] | |
| PARIS BOMBARDED BY LONG-RANGE GUNS | [310] | |
| THE IRISH GUARDS | By Rudyard Kipling | [313] |
| THE GUILT OF GERMANY: Prince Lichnowsky's Memorandum | [314] | |
| Reply of Former Foreign Minister von Jagow | [320] | |
| COUNT CZERNIN ON PEACE TERMS | [323] | |
| Great Britain's Reply to Count Czernin | [327] | |
| AUSTRO-FRENCH "PEACE INITIATIVE" CONTROVERSY | [328] | |
| A REVIEW OF THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND | By Thomas G. Frothingham | [334] |
| Charts of Battle of Jutland | [332] | |
| GERMAN CHURCHMAN'S DEFENSE OF POISON GAS | [343] | |
| GREAT BRITAIN'S WAR WORK IN 1917 | [344] | |
| THE BATTLE OF CAMBRAI: Official Report | By Field Marshal Haig | [349] |
| THE EUROPEAN WAR AS SEEN BY CARTOONISTS: 42 Cartoons | [361] | |
ROTOGRAVURE ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| President Wilson | [Frontis] |
| Ferdinand Foch, Generalissimo | ["] |
| Benedict Crowell | [204] |
| American Army Chiefs | [205] |
| British Commanders in France | [220] |
| German Commanders in France | [221] |
| United States Congress | [236] |
| American First Aid Station | [237] |
| Representatives of Central Powers | [268] |
| Panorama of Venice | [269] |
| Henry P. Davison | [284] |
| Actual Surrender of Jerusalem | [285] |
| Camp Zachary Taylor | [316] |
| View of Camp Sherman | [317] |
| Graves of Tuscania Victims | [332] |
| Liberty Loan Poster | [333] |
CURRENT HISTORY CHRONICLED
[Period Ended April 19, 1918.]
An Epoch-making Month
The month covered by this issue of Current History Magazine was the most fateful in a military way since the beginning of the war. The most desperate and sanguinary battle in history, begun with the great German offensive in France March 21, 1918, was at its most furious phase when these pages were printed. No less than 4,000,000 men were engaged in deadly combat on a front of 150 miles.