[Sidenote: Committee of three jurists.]
As for special objects carried off by the House of Hapsburg and other dynasties from Italy, Belgium, Poland, and Czecho-Slovakia, a committee of three jurists appointed by the Reparation Commission is to examine within a year the conditions under which the objects were removed and to order restoration if the removal were illegal. The list of articles includes among others:
[Sidenote: List of special articles to be restored.]
For Tuscany, the Crown Jewels and part of the Medici heirlooms; for Modena, a Virgin by Andrea del Sarto and manuscripts; for Palermo, twelfth century objects made for the Norman Kings; for Naples, ninety-eight manuscripts carried off in 1718; for Belgium, various objects and documents removed in 1794; for Poland, a gold cup of King Ladislas IV., removed in 1772; and for Czecho-Slovakia, various documents and historical manuscripts removed from the Royal Castle of Prague.
INDEX
A
Air Raids, at night, III, 229-241;
British, II, 249;
on England, I, 375-388
Albert, King of Belgium, I, 114-115;
encourages soldiers, I, 51-53
Albert, town of, III, 164
Alcedo torpedoed, II, 374-378
Alderson, General, at Second Ypres, I, 258
Aleppo, importance as railway junction, II, 180;
starting point for caravans, II, 178
Alien enemies, rules concerning, II, 239-243
Allenby, General, at Gommecourt, II. 75;
commands in Palestine, II, 344-368;
in Allied retreat, I, 65-67
Allied Armies, in Macedonia, III, 170;
positions in Battle of the Marne, I, 78,
81, 90-93
Alsace, operations in, I, 84
America Drawn Into War, II, 205-225;
bad faith of Germans, II, 210;
sinking of Lusitania, II, 210;
stirred by invasion of Belgium, II, 208;
Sussex, II, 212
America’s Break with Germany, relations severed,
II, 197-198;
reasons for, II, 194-204
America’s Declaration of Existence of War, II, 224-225
American Expeditionary Forces, a corps, III, 242-243;
a division, III, 242;
airplanes, III, 248;
artillery supply, III, 247;
artillery training camp, III, 202;
attack in the Soissonais, III, 224;
aviators, III, 269;
communication and supply, III, 244-246;
construction work, III, 244;
Engineer Corps, III, 216, 269;
fight through Meuse-Argonne sector, III,
256-267;
First and Second in Soissons drive, III,
252;
First Army is organized, III, 254;
first days on the firing line, III, 200-209;
First Division at Montdidier, III, 250;
First Division takes Cantigny, III, 250;
Forty-second Division east of Rheims,
III, 251;
Forty-second and Thirty-second at Cierges,
III, 253;