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and
Horrible Deaths.
CHAPTER XV.
GERMAN PLOTS AND PROPAGANDA IN AMERICA Trailing the
German Plotters--Destruction of Ships--Pressure on Congress--Attacks

in Canada--Zimmerman's Foolish Effort to Embroil America with
Mexico and Japan--Lies of the Propagandists After America Entered
the War--Dumba, Von Bernstorff, Van Papen and Boy-Ed, a quartet of
Unscrupulous Destructionists
CHAPTER XVI.
SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA The Submarine Murderers at
Work--Germany's Blackband Warning--No Chance for Life--The Ship
Unarmed and Without Munitions--The President's Note--Germany's
Lying Denials--Coroner's Inquest Charges Kaiser with Wilful
Murder--"Remember the Lusitania" One of America's Big Reasons for
Declaring War
CHAPTER XVII.
NEUVE CHAPELLE AND WAR IN BLOOD-SOAKED TRENCHES
War Amid Barbed-Wire Entanglements and the Desolation of No
Man's Land--Subterranean Tactics Continuing Over Four
Years--Attacks that Cost Thousands of Lives for Every Foot of Gain
CHAPTER XVIII.
STEADFAST SOUTH AFRICA Botha and Smuts, Rocks of Loyalty
Amid a Sea of Treachery--Civil War that Ended with the Drowning of
General Beyers and the Arrest of General De Wet--Conquest of
German Colonies--Trail of the Hun in the Jungle
CHAPTER XIX.
ITALY DECLARES WAR ON AUSTRIA Her Great
Decision--D'Annunzio, Poet and Patriot--Italia Irredenta--German
Indignation--The Campaigns on the Isonzo and in the Tyrol
CHAPTER XX.
GLORIOUS GALLIPOLI A Titanic Enterprise--Its Objects--Disasters

and Deeds of Deathless Glory--The Heroic Anzacs--Bloody Dashes up
Impregnable Slopes--Silently they Stole Away--A Successful Failure
CHAPTER XXI.
THE GREATEST NAVAL BATTLE IN HISTORY The Battle of
Jutland--Every Factor on Sea and in Sky Favorable to the
Germans--Low Visibility a Great Factor--A Modern Sea Battle--Light
Cruisers Screening Battleship Squadron--Germans Run Away when
British Fleet Marshals Its Full Strength--Death of Lord Kitchener
CHAPTER XXII.
THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN The Advance on Cracow--Van
Hindenburg Strikes at Warsaw--German Barbarism--The War in
Galicia--The Fall of Przemysl--Russia's Ammunition Fails--The
Russian Retreat--The Fall of Warsaw--Czernowitz
CHAPTER XXIII.
HOW THE BALKANS DECIDED Ferdinand of Bulgaria Insists Upon
Joining Germany--Dramatic Scene in the King's Palace--The Die is
Cast--Bulgaria Succumbs to Seductions of Potsdam Gang--Greece
Mobilizes--French and British Troops at Saloniki--Serbia
Over-run--Roumania's Disastrous Venture in the Arena of Mars
CHAPTER XXIV.
THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA British Army Threatening
Bagdad Besieged in Kut-el-Amara--After Heroic Defense General
Townshend Surrenders After 143 Days of Siege--New British
Expedition Recaptures Kut--Troops Push on up the Tigris--Fall of
Bagdad, the Magnificent
CHAPTER XXV.
CANADA'S PART IN THE GREAT WAR By COL. GEORGE G.

NASMITH, C. M. G. Enthusiastic Response to the Call to
Action--Valcartier Camp a Splendid Example of the Driving Power of
Sir Sam Hughes--Thirty-three Liners Cross the Atlantic with First
Contingent of Men and Equipment--Largest Convoy Ever Gathered
Together--At the Front with the Princess Pat's--Red Cross--Financial
Aid--Half a Million Soldiers Overseas--Mons, the Last Stronghold of
the Enemy, Won by the Men from Canada--A Record of Glory
CHAPTER XXVI.
IMMORTAL VERDUN Grave of the Military Reputations of Von
Falkenhayn and the Crown Prince--Hindenburg's Warning--Why the
Germans Made the Disastrous Attempt to Capture the Great
Fortress--Heroic France Reveals Itself to the World--"They Shall Not
Pass"--Nivelle's Glorious Stand on Dead Man Hill--Lord Northcliffe's
Description--A Defense Unsurpassed in the History of France
CHAPTER XXVII.
MURDERS AND MARTYRS The Case of Edith Cavell--Nurse Who
Befriended the Helpless, Dies at the Hands of the Germans--Captain
Fryatt's Martyrdom--How Germany Sowed the Seeds of Disaster
CHAPTER XXVIII.
THE SECOND BATTLE OF YPRES The Canadians in
Action--Undismayed by the New Weapon of the Enemy--Holding the
Line Against Terrific Odds--Men from the Dominion Fight Like
Veterans
CHAPTER XXIX.
ZEPPELIN RAIDS ON FRANCE AND ENGLAND First Zeppelin
Attack Kills Twenty-eight and Injures Forty-four--Part of Germany's
Policy of Frightfulness--Raids by German Airplanes on Unfortified
Towns--Killing of Non-Combatants--The British Lion
Awakes--Anti-Aircraft Precautions and Protections--Policy of

Terrorism Fails
CHAPTER XXX.
RED REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA Rasputin, the Mystic--The Cry for
Bread--Rise of the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers'
Delegates--Rioting in Petrograd--The Threatening Cloud of
Disaster--Moderate Policy of the Duma Fails--The Fatal Easter Week
of 1917--Abdication of the Czar--Last Tragic Moments of the Autocrat
of All the Russias--Grand Duke Issues Declaration Ending Power of
Romanovs in Russia--Release of Siberian Revolutionists--Free Russia
CHAPTER XXXI.
THE DESCENT TO BOLSHEVISM Russia Intoxicated with
Freedom--Elihu Root and His Mission--Last Brilliant Offensive in
Galicia--The Great Mutiny in the Army--The Battalion of
Death--Kerensky's Skyrocket Career--Kornilov's Revolt--Loss of
Riga--Lenine, the Dictator--The Impossible "Peace" of Brest-Litovsk
CHAPTER XXXII.
GERMANY'S OBJECT LESSON TO THE UNITED STATES Two
Voyages of the Deutschland--U-53 German Submarine Reaches
Newport and Sinks Five British and Neutral Steamers off
Nantucket--Rescue of Survivors by United States
Warships--Anti-German Feeling in America Reaching a Climax
CHAPTER XXXIII.
AMERICA TRANSFORMED BY WAR The United States Enters the
Conflict--The Efficiency of Democracy-- Six Months in an American
Training Camp Equal to Six Years of German Compulsory
Service--American Soldiers and Their Resourcefulness on the
Battlefield--Methods of Training and Their Results-- The S. A. T. C.
CHAPTER XXXIV.

HOW FOOD WON THE WAR The American Farmer a Potent Factor
in Civilization's Victory--Scientific Studies of Food Production,
Distribution and Consumption--Hoover Lays Down the Law
Regulating Wholesalers and Grocers--Getting the Food
Across--Feeding