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

Author: Various

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The New York Times

CURRENT HISTORY: THE EUROPEAN WAR

FEBRUARY, 1915

[Illustration: THE PRINCE OF WALES IN WAR KIT.

(_Photo_ (C) _by American Press Assn._)]

[Illustration: 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.]

We appeal to our country, we appeal to the whole civilized world.

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
the incarnation of the one gracious god upon earth. Her warriors seem to
have assumed the miserable duty of reminding humanity of the laten