The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915

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CURRENT HISTORY
THE EUROPEAN WAR
FEBRUARY, 1915
Contents
The New Russia Speaks
Russia in Literature
Russia and Europe's War
Russian Appeal for the Poles
I AM FOR PEACE!
United Russia
Prince Trubetskoi's Appeal to Russians to Help the Polish Victims of War
How Prohibition Came to Russia
Influence of the War Upon Russian Industry
Declaration of the Russian Industrial Interests
A Russian Financial Authority on the War
Proposed Internal Loans of Russia
How Russian Manufacturers Feel
New Sources of Revenue Needed
Our Russian Ally
Confiscation of German PatentsA Russian Income Tax
PING PONG.
Tools of the Russian Juggernaut
Fate of the Jews in Poland
Commercial Treaties After the War
THE WOMAN'S PART.
A PHOTOGRAPHIC REVIEW OF THE WAR
Patriotism and Endurance
APPEAL TO AMERICA FOR BELGIUM.
With the German Army
Story of the Man Who Fired on the Rheims Cathedral
Richard Harding Davis's Comment
The German Airmen
German Generals Talk of the War
Human Documents of the War
Civil Life in Berlin
Belgian Boy Tells Story of Aerschot
THE NEUTRALS.
Fifteen Minutes on the Yser
Seeing Nieuport Under Shell Fire
Raid on Scarborough Seen from a Window
How the Baroness Hid Her Husband on a Vessel
Warsaw Swamped With Refugees
After the Russian Advance in Galicia
Officer in Battle Had Little Feeling
The Battle of New Year's Day
Bass's Story
The Waste of German Lives
The Flight Into Switzerland
Once Fair Belgrade Is a Skeleton City
Letters and Diaries
The First German Prisoners
Two Letters From the Trenches
The Baptism of Fire
An All-Night Attack
The Germans as Seen from a Convent
War-Time Scenes in Rouen
"It Is for Us and for France"
"Chant of Hate Against England"
ANSWERING THE "CHANT OF HATE."
England Caused the War
A SONG OF THE SIEGE GUN.
Why England Fights Germany
AT THE VILLA ACHILLEION CORFU.
Germany's Strategic Railways
GLORY OF WAR.
Chronology of the War
FootnotesTHE PRINCE OF WALES IN WAR KIT.
(Photo © by American Press Assn. )

FIELD MARSHAL PAUL VON HINDENBURG,
Commander of the German Armies in the East.
(Photo from Brown Bros.)
The New Russia Speaks
An Appeal by Russian Authors, Artists, and Actors
[From the Russkia Vedomosti, No. 223, Sept. 28, (Oct. 11,) 1914, P. 6.]

E appeal to our country, we appeal to the whole civilized world.W
What our heart and our reason refused to believe has come indisputably true, to the greatest shame of
humanity. Every new day brings new horrible proofs of the cruelty and the vandalism of the Germans in the
bloody clash of nations which we are witnessing, in that neutral slaughtering of brothers provoked by the
madness of these same Germans; in their vainglorious ambition to rule the world with violence, they are
throwing upon the scales of the world's justice nothing but the sword. We fancy that Germany, oblivious of her
past fame, has turned to the altars of her cruel national gods whose defeat has been accomplished by theincarnation of the one gracious god upon earth. Her warriors seem to have assumed the miserable duty of
reminding humanity of the latent vigor of the aboriginal beast within man, of the fact that even the leading
nations of civilization, by letting loose their ill-will, may easily fall back on an equal footing with their forefathers
—those half naked bands that fifteen centuries ago trampled under their heavy feet the ancient inheritance of
civilization. As in the days of yore, again priceless productions of art, temples, and libraries perish in
conflagration, whole cities and towns are wiped off the face of the earth, rivers are overflowing with blood,
through heaps of cadavers savage men are hewing their path, and those whose lips are shouting in honor of
their criminal supreme commander are inflicting untold tortures and infamies upon defenseless people, upon
aged men and women, upon captives and wounded.
Let these horrible crimes be entered upon the Book of Fate with eternal letters! These crimes shall awake
within us one sole burning wish—to wrest the arms from the barbarous hands, to deprive Germany forever of
that brutal power upon whose achievement she has concentrated all her thoughts. Already the seed of
national pride and of hatred, widely sown by her, has awakened a magnificent growth. This hatred may
spread like wildfire among other nations, and then will resound the voice of those blinded by wrath, the voice
of those demanding vengeance, the voice of those repudiating everything great and beautiful among the
creations of the German genius to the rejoicing and for the benefit of all mankind.
But let us remember the disastrous results of such a course—for the black crimes thrust by Germany upon
herself by drawing the sword, and the outrages in which she has indulged herself while drunk with victory are
the inevitable fruits of the darkness which she has voluntarily entered. At present she is pursuing this course,
encouraged even by her poets, scientists, and social and political leaders.
Her adversaries, carrying peace and victory to their peoples, shall indeed be inspired solely by holy motives.
Signed by:
K. ARSENIEV, I. BUNIN, A. VESSELOVSKI, NESTOR KOTLIAREVSKI, and D.
OVSIANIKO-KULIKOVSKI, Honorary Members of the Academy.
F. KORSCH, Regular Member of the Academy.
A. GRUZINSKI, President of the Society of the Amateurs of Russian Literature.
Prof. P. SAKULIN, Vice President.
Prof. L. LOPATIN, President of the Moscow Psychological Association.
N. DAVYDOV, President of the Tolstoy League of Moscow.
Prince V. GOLYTZIN, President of the Literary, Dramatic and Musical Society of A.N.
Ostrovski.
S. SHPAZINSKI, President of the League of Russian Authors and Composers.
I. KONDRATIEV, Secretary.
I. POPOV, President of the Literary-Artistic Circle.
S. IVANTZOV, Vice President.
V. FRITSCHE, President of the Council of the Newspaper Writers and Authors'
Association.
V. ANZIMIROV, Chairman of the Board.
JULIUS BUNIN, President of the Literary Circle "Sreda" and the Vice President of the
Moscow Society for Aid to Authors and Newspaper Writers.
N. TELESHEV, Chairman of the Moscow Board of the Mutual Aid Fund for Authors and
Scientists.
A. BAKHRUSHIN, Chairman of the Board of the Literary-Theatrical Museum of the
Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
JOANN BRUSSOV, Member of the Committee of the Society of Free Esthetics.
P. STRUVE, editor of the magazine, Russkaia Mysl.
N. MIKHAILOV, editor of the magazine, Vestnik Vospitania, (Educational Messenger.)
D. TIKHOMIROV, editor of the magazine, Yunaia Rossiia, (Young Russia.)
S. MAKHALOV RAZUMOVSKI, and D. GOLUBEV. TH. ARNOLD, Prof. N.
BAZHENOV, Y. BALTRUSHAITIS, A. BIBIKOV, BOGDANOVITSCH, I. BELORUSSOV,
Lecturer D. GENKIN, SERGIUS GLAGOL, MAXIME GORKY, V. YERMILOV, V.
KALLASH, Prof. A. KIESEVETTER, E. KURTSCH-EK, V. LADYSHENSKI, A.
LEDNITZKI, SERGIUS NAIDENOV, Prof. M. ROZANOV, Prof. M. ROSTOVTZEV, A.
SERAFIMOVICH, SKITALETS, (S. PETROV,) I. SURGUTSCHEV, Lecturer K.
USPENSKI, L. KHITROVO, A. TZATURIAN, Prof. A. TZINGER, I. TSHEKHOV, Lecturer
S. SHAMBINAGO, N. SHKLIAR, and I. SHMELEV, the representatives of thePublishing House of the Authors in Moscow.
RUSSIAN PAINTERS.—A. ARKHIPOV, Member of Academy; A. ALADZHALOV, V.
BKSHEIEV, V. BYTSCHKOV, A. VASNETZOV, Member of Academy; VICTOR
VASNETZOV, S. VINOGRADOV, Member of Academy; S. ZHUKOVSKI, M. ZAITZEV,
P. KELIN, A. KORIN, K. KOROVIN, S. KONENKOV, K. LEBEDEV, S. MALIUTIN, S.
MERKULOV, sculptor; S. MILORADOVITCH, Y. MINTSCHENKO, L. PASTERNAK, V.
PEREPLETTSCHIKOV, K. PERVUKHIN, A. STEPANOV, Member of Academy; A.
SREDIN, E. SHANKS, and M. SHEMIAKIN.
F.O. SHEICHTEL, the President of the Association of the Moscow Architects, Member
of the Academy.
REPRESENTING THE GREAT IMPERIAL THEATRE.—U. AVRANEK, Ancient Artist;
K. ANTAROVA, L. BALANOVSKAIA, A. BOGDANOVICH, A. BONATCHITCH, N.
BAKALEINIKOV, K. VALTZ, R. VASILEVSKI, P. VASILIEV, S. GARDENIN, A.
GERASIMENKO, E. GREMINA, E. DAVYDOVA, A. DOBROVOLSKAIA, N. DOCTOR,
E. KUPER, M. KUZHIAMSKI, A. LABINSKI, V. LOSSKI, E. LUTSCHEZARSKAIA, N.
MAMONTOV, S. MIGDI, A. NEZHDANOVA, S. OLSHANSKI, V. OSIPOV, N.
OSTROGRADSKAIA, V. OBTSCHINIKOV, F. ORESHKEVITCH, O. PABLOVA, TH.
PAVLOVSKI, A. PRAVDINA, V. PETROV, G. PIROGOV, E. PODOLSKAIA, L.
SAVRANSKI, M. SEMENOVA, S. SINITZYNA, LEONID SOBINO