TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. Address to the Congress by the President of the United States, April 2,
1917, recommending a declaration of war against the Imperial
German Government .

2. Joint Resolution of Congress declaring a state of war to exist between

the United States and the Imperial German Government, April 6,

1917

3. German Conceptions of the State, International Policy, and Inter-

national Law

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CHAPTER V

Unlawful Seizure of Persons upon the High Seas

Section 1. Searching of American Vessels for German and Austrian

Subjects

Section 2. Arrest of Americans on Neutral Vessels

CHAPTER VI

Hovering of British Warships off American Ports

Disregard of American Citizenship Papers and Passports

Change of Policy in regard to Loans to Belligerents

Indifference to Confinement of Noncombatants in Detention

Camps in England and France.

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Section 6. Failure to Prevent Transshipment of British Troops and

War Material Across the Territory of the United

States

Section 7.

Internment of German Steamship Geier and the collier

Locksun at Honolulu

Section 8. Coaling of Warships in Panama Canal Zone

Section 9. Failure to Protest against Modification of the Declara-
tion of London by the British Government

Section 10. General Unfriendly Attitude of United States toward Ger-

many and Austria .

Section 11. Summary

Submarine Warfare

CHAPTER IX

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CHAPTER XIII

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Status of Merchant Vessels

Section 1. The Right of Merchant Vessels to Arm

Section 2. Visit and Search

Section 3. Destruction of Prizes

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Section 4. Treatment of Armed Merchant Vessels in the Present War. 247

Severance of Diplomatic Relations and Proclamation of Armed Neutrality. 295

CHAPTER XVII

The Declaration of War

298

CHAPTER XVIII

Why Not Arbitration?

Section 2. The German Attitude towards Arbitration

Section 1. The Origin and Extent of the Modern Practice of Arbitra-

tion

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314

Section 3. The Frye Case

326

1. Reply of the President of the United States to the Peace Appeal of

the Pope, August 27, 1917.

361

2. Address of the President of the United States Delivered at a Joint Ses-

sion of the Two Houses of Congress, December 4, 1917

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372

3. War with the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government .

4. Joint Resolution Declaring that a State of War Exists between the

Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government and the Gov-

ernment and the People of the United States, and Making Pro-

vision to Prosecute the Same

NOTE.-In Chapter I the references to the official correspondence of the

European Powers regarding the outbreak of the war of 1914 are made to
Diplomatic Documents Relating to the Outbreak of the European War, a work
in two volumes edited by the author of the present volume and issued by the
Oxford University Press in 1916. The references in parentheses are to the
pages of that publication, but the titles of the memoranda and the numbers
of the documents are given in each case, so that the reader can locate them
in other collections.

The references to The Hague Conventions and Declarations are made
throughout to a work entitled The Hague Conventions and Declarations of
1899 and 1907, edited by the author of this volume and issued by the Oxford
University Press in 1915, as this publication gives the reservations, signatures
and ratifications of the Powers, certified to by the Department of State of
the United States and the Netherland Government.