The New International Year Book

Excerpt from The New International Year Book: A Compendium of the World's Progress for the Year 1915 The new international year book for 1915, the ninth in the new series which began with the 1907 volume, 'follows the same plan as its pre decessors. That is to say, it is designed as an encyclopedia of the year, with the titles arranged in a single alphabet, and the text written anew each year. In the 1915 volume as in the one before, the effect of the war was to reduce the amount of available statistical information under cer tain heads. The space thus saved has been given to the comprehensive article on the war OF the nations, and to the many and diverse articles on subjects relating directly or indirectly to the war. The leading ar ticles in this important group are: The war OF the nations, a clear and compact narrative by Professor Carlton Hayes, who wrote the cor responding article for the 1914 Year Book; united states and the war, an impartial, explanatory record Of the effects of the war on our foreign relations, by Professor Nelson P. Mead; supplementary articles on sep arate topics in the same field, such as lusitania, preparedness, interna tional peace and arbitration (the last named by Mr. Clinton Rogers Woodmif); military progress, by Lieutenant Col. C. De Witt Will cox; naval progress, submarines, and battleships, by Captain Lewis Sayre Van Duzer; aeronautics, etc., and also the biographies Of persons brought into prominence by the events Of the war. To aid the reader in following the year's fighting, color maps Of the general fields Of Operation and sketch maps Of the chief campaigns and battles are included. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.