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enemy, due to the fact that the latter's navy of the war appears in detail in the article WAR 



was effecting a blockade of the German Empire. OF THE NATIONS. 



So serious did the blockade become that Ger- Consult Dawson , s German Life in Town and 



many, through a submarine campaign against Country; Wade's Our Little German Cousin; 



friend and foe alike, sought to stop all commerce Henderson's Short History of Germany; Yonge's 



to its enemies and reduce them, also, to the Younff Folka Hi *tory of Germany. 



starvation point. Vessels of all nations were Related Subjects. The articles in these vol- 



torpedoed on sight and without warning, and umes referrj ng to Germany are numerous, but 



,, . ,. . . 4-11 tne following classified index will make reference 



this direct violation of international law so to t h em easy 



alarmed the great neutral nations that on April CITIES AND TOWNS 



6, 1917, the United States declared that through A ix-la-ChapelIe Breslau 



Germany's acts a state of war existed between Altona Brunswick 



those two countries. Latin-American countries Augsburg Cassel 



lined up in sympathy with the American repub- Baden ' Charlottenburg 



. _, . , . Barmen Chemnitz 



lie, and soon the Central Empires were facing a Bayreuth Cologne 



world of righteously-indignant foes. In No- Berlin Danzig 



vember, 1918, it was clearly evident that they Bingen Darmstadt 



were certain to be crushed, and on the llth an Blenh e {m . Dortmund 



j u- u i j A xu Bonn Dresden 



armistice was signed which led to the peace de- Bremen Duisburg 



tailed in the statement on this page. The story Bremerhaven Diisseldorf 



The Path of German "Glory" Led to This 



The "new Germany" will be a second-rate power because of its geographical limita- 

 tions, without taking into consideration the tremendous reduction in its military and 

 naval armaments. 



Stripped of all its colonial possessions, it emerges in Europe with great portions of 

 territory taken from the empire Bismarck builded. 



In territory Germany loses : 



To France Alsace-Lorraine, 5,600 square miles. 



To Belgium Two small districts between Holland and Luxemburg, 382 square miles. 



To Poland Southeastern Silesia and most of Posen and Wfist Prussia, 27,686 square 

 miles. 



To the League of Nations Mouth of River Memel and internationalized area around 

 Danzig, 729 square miles; basin of the Sarre (internationalized temporarily), 738 square 

 miles. Total, 1,467 square miles. 



Total territory ceded 35,135 square miles. 



Territory whose destiny depends on vote : 



Southeastern third of East Prussia and districts along the North Vistula River, 5,785 

 square miles. 



Part of Schleswig, 2,787 square miles. 



Total territory in balance 8,572 square miles. 



Grand total of territory ceded and still in balance 43,707 square miles. 



France, by restoration of Alsace-Lorraine, gains an area equivalent to approximately 

 the area of Connecticut and one-third of Rhode Island. 



Belgium's gain is a bit more than one-third the area of Rhode Island. 



Poland gains territory about equal to West Virginia and Rhode Island combined. 



Area in balance approximates that of New Jersey. 



Germany also loses the product of the Sarre Valley coal mines for fifteen years, with 

 the possibility of the loss becoming permanent. 



Its rights in the Shantung Peninsula. 



Practically all of its navy. 



Fourteen submarine cables. 



All of Its army, with the exception of 100,000 men, including officers. 



Its sovereignty over the important rivers of Central Europe and the Kiel Canal. 



Most of its merchant marine. 



In addition, it will be compelled to make reparation for all damage done by it in the 

 war, the amount to be determined by international commissions and estimated at many 

 billions of dollars. 



