Germany
The Haupttelegraphenamt (the Chief Telegraph Office) in Berlin is the centre of the entire telegraph system of Germany. It is a large, brick building in the Franzoesischestrasse guarded, day and night, by soldiers. The sidewalks outside the building are barricaded. Without a p...
When the German Emperor in his New Year's message said that victory would remain with Germany in 1917 he must have known that the submarine war would be inaugurated to help brin...
7. Chapter 7Dr. Karl Liebknecht, after he had challenged the Chancellor on the 4th of April, became the object of attack by the military authorities. The Chancellor, although he is the real...
13. Chapter 13The United States entered the war at a time when many Americans believed the Allies were about to win it. By May 1st, 1917, the situation so changed in Europe that it was appare...
10. Chapter 10To many observers it seemed to be insanity coupled with desperation which caused the Kaiser to defy the United States. There was no doubt that Germany was desperate, economicall...
6. Chapter 6After the sinking of the _Arabic_ the German Foreign Office intimated to the United States Government and to the American correspondents that methods of submarine warfare would...
9. Chapter 9Disturbed by internal political dissension and tormented by lack of food the German ship of state was sailing troubled waters by November, 1916. Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg'...
11. Chapter 11During the Somme battles several of the American correspondents in Berlin were invited to go to the front near Peronne and were asked to luncheon by the Bavarian General von Kir...
2. Chapter 2On February 4th, 1915, the _Reichsanzeiger_, the official newspaper of Germany, published an announcement declaring that from the 18th of February "all the waters surrounding Gr...
8. Chapter 8When I entered Germany in 1915 there was plenty of food everywhere and prices were normal. But a year later the situation had changed so that the number of food cards--Germany's...
5. Chapter 5showed that the man at the time he attacked the American was dressed in a soldier's uniform, which is grey, and which could not he mistaken for the black uniform of a red cross...
1. Chapter 1The Haupttelegraphenamt (the Chief Telegraph Office) in Berlin is the centre of the entire telegraph system of Germany. It is a large, brick building in the Franzoesischestrasse...
3. Chapter 3At the beginning of the war, even the Socialist Party in the Reichstag voted the Government credits. The press and the people unanimously supported the Government because there...
4. Chapter 4While Germany was professing her friendship for the United States in every note written following the sinking of the _Lusitania_, the government was secretly preparing the natio...