Current Events Pictorially Treated

A RECENT PORTRAIT OF THE PRESIDENT The above photograph of President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson was made in Washington just as they were leaving the hall of the Daughters of the American Revolution, where the President had made an address. Mrs. Bolling, mother of Mrs. Wilson, is directly behind the President, and on his right is a Secret Service man. Colonel W. W. Harts, superintendent of buildings and grounds, is on Mrs. Wilson's left

COUNT VON BERNSTORFF
German Ambassador to the United States
Count von Bernstorff was born in London in 1862. He married an American,
Miss Jeanne Luckemeyer, of New York, in 1887. His diplomatic career has
been a distinguished one. He has occupied his present post since 1908. He
has been honored with degrees by many American universities

DR. VON BETHMANN HOLLWEG
Chancellor of the German Empire

Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg was born in the Province of Brandenburg in 1856. He was educated in the Universities of Strassburg, Leipzig, and Berlin. He has held many high positions in official life, and in addition is Generallieutenant in the Prussian army

Ambassador von Bernstorff and Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg have more to do with German-American relations than any other German officials in civil life

PHOTOGRAPH FROM BAIN NEWS SERVICE

JAMES W. GERARD, AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO GERMANY, AND THE EMBASSY STAFF
Judge Gerard was born in Geneseo, New York, in 1867; graduated from Columbia University in 1900; was admitted to the bar in 1902; became Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of New York in 1908; was major in the National Guard for several years. In the picture he is seen seated in the center,
surrounded by his staff
PROMINENT FIGURES IN THE GREAT GERMAN-AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC CONTROVERSY

OVER SUBMARINE WARFARE

RMAN SUBMARINE WARFARE BEFORE CONGRESS, APRIL 19

1775, and the first blood of the Civil War having been shed in Baltimore on April 19, 1865), may be further marked as a untry to the brink of a rupture in its diplomatic relations with Germany