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Armies in the Field
CHAPTER XXXV.
THE UNITED STATES NAVY IN THE WAR Increase from 58,000
Men to Approximately 500,000--Destroyer Fleet Arrives in British
Waters--"We Are Ready Now"--The Hunt of the U-Boats--Gunnery
that is Unrivalled--Depth Charges and Other New Inventions--The
U-Boat Menace Removed--Surrender of German Under-Sea Navy
CHAPTER XXXVI.
CHINA JOINS THE FIGHTING DEMOCRACIES How the Germans
Behaved in China Seventeen Years Before--The Whirligig of Time
Brings Its Own Revenge--The Far Eastern Republic Joins Hands with
the Allies--German Propaganda at Work--Futile Attempt to Restore the
Monarchy--Fear of Japan--War--Thousands of Chinese Toil Behind the
Battle Lines in France--Siam with Its Eight Millions Defies the
Germans--End of Teuton Influence in the Orient
CHAPTER XXXVII.
THE DEFEAT AND RECOVERY OF ITALY Subtle Socialist Gospel
Preached by Enemy Plays Havoc with Guileless Italians--Sudden
Onslaught of Germans Drives Cadorna's Men from Heights--The
Spectacular Retreat that Dismayed the World--Glorious Stand of the
Italians on the Piave--Rise of Diaz
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
REDEMPTION OF THE HOLY LAND A Long Campaign
Progressing Through Hardships to Glory--General Allenby Enters
Jerusalem on Foot--Turkish Army Crushed in Palestine-- Battle of

Armageddon
CHAPTER XXXIX.
AMERICA'S TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS Government
Ownership of Railroads, Telegraphs, Telephones--Getting the Men
from Training Camps to the Battle Fronts--From Texas to Toul--A
Gigantic System Working Without a Hitch
CHAPTER XL.
SHIPS AND THE MEN WHO MADE THEM The Emergency Fleet
Corporation--Charles M. Schwab as Master Shipbuilder--Hog Island
the Wonder Shipyard of the World--An Unbeatable Record--Concrete
Ships--Wooden Ships--Standardizing the Steel Ship--Attitude of Labor
in the War--Samuel Gompers an Unofficial Member of the
Cabinet--Great Task of the United States Employment Service
CHAPTER XLI.
GERMANY'S DYING DESPERATE EFFORT The High Tide of
German Success--An Army of Six Million Men Flung Recklessly on
the Allies--Most Terrific Battles in all History--The Red Ruin of War
from Arras to St. Quentin--Amiens Within Arms' Reach of the
Invaders--Paris Bombarded by Long-Range Guns from Distance of
Seventy-six Miles--A Generalissimo at Last--Marshal Foch in Supreme
Command
CHAPTER XLII.
CHATEAU-THIERRY, FIELD OF GLORY German Wave Stops with
the Americans--Prussian Guard Flung Back--The Beginning of
Autocracy's End--America's Record of Valor and Victory--
Cantigny--Belleau Wood--Thierry--St. Mihiel--Shock Troops of the
Enemy Annihilated--Soldier's Remarkable Letter.
CHAPTER XLIII.

ENGLAND AND FRANCE STRIKE IN THE NORTH Second
Terrific Blow of General Foch--Lens, the Storehouse of Minerals,
Captured--Bapaume Retaken--British Snap the Famous Hindenburg
Line--The Great Thrust Through Cambrai--Tanks to the Front--Cavalry
in Action
CHAPTER XLIV.
BELGIUM'S GALLANT EFFORT The Little Army Under King
Albert Thrusts Savagely at the Germans--Ostend and Zeebrugge Freed
from the Submarine Pirates--Pathetic Scenes as Belgians are Restored
to Their Homes
CHAPTER XLV.
ITALY'S TERRIFIC DRIVE Enemy Offensive Opens on Front of
Ninety-Seven Miles--Repulse of the Austrians--Italy Turns the
Tables--Terrific Counter-Thrusts from the Piave to Trente--Forcing the
Alpine Passages--Battles High in the Air--English, French and
Americans Back up the Italians in Humbling the Might of
Austria--D'Annunzio's Romantic Bombardment of Vienna--Diaz Leads
his Men to Victory
CHAPTER XLVI.
BULGARIA DESERTS GERMANY Greece in the Throes of
Revolution--Fall of Constantine--Serbians Begin Advance on
Bulgars--Thousands of Prisoners Taken--Surrender of Bulgaria--Panic
in Berlin--Passage Through the Country Granted for Armies of the
Allies--Ferdinand Abdicates--Germany's Imagined Mittel-Europa
Dream Forever Destroyed
CHAPTER XLVII.
THE CENTRAL EMPIRES WHINE FOR PEACE Austria-Hungary
Makes the First Plea--President Wilson's Abrupt Answer--Prince Max,
Camouflaged as an Apostle of Peace, made Chancellor and Opens

Germany's Pathetic Plea for a Peace by Negotiation--The President
Replies on Behalf of all the Allied Powers--Foch Pushes on Regardless
of Peace Notes
CHAPTER XLVIII.
BATTLES IN THE AIR Conquering the Fear of Death--From
Individual Fights to Battles Between Squadrons--Heroes of the Warring
Nations--America's Wonderful Record--From Nowhere to First Place
in Eighteen Months--The Liberty Motor
CHAPTER XLIX.
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS OF THE AMERICAN FORCES Record
of the Red Cross on all Fronts--A Gigantic Work Well Executed--Y. M.
C. A.--Y. W. C. A.--Knights of Columbus--Jewish Welfare
Association--Salvation Army--American Library Association--Other
Organizations--Surgery and Sanitation
CHAPTER L.
THE PIRATES OF THE UNDER-SEAS Germany's Ruthless
Submarine Policy--A Boomerang Destroying the Hand that Cast
It--Terrorism that Failed--One Hundred and Fifty U-Boats Sunk or
Captured--Shameless Surrender of the German Submarines and of the
Fleet They Protected
CHAPTER LI.
APPROACHING THE FINAL STAGE Cutting the Railroads to
Cambrai--Americans Co-operate with British in Furious Attack--Douai
and St. Quentin Taken--The Battle Line Straightened for the Last
Mighty Assault--All Hope Abandoned by the Kaiser
CHAPTER LII.
LAST DAYS OF THE WAR American Troops Join with the Allies in

Colossal Drive on 71-mile Front--Historic Sedan Taken by the
Yanks--Stenay, the Last Battle of the War--How the Opposing Forces
Greeted the News of the Armistice
CHAPTER LIII.
THE DRASTIC TERMS OF SURRENDER Handcuffs for Four
Nations--Bulgaria First to Fly the White Flag-- Allenby's Great Victory
Forces Turkey Out--Austria Signs Quickly-- Germany's Capitulation
Complete and Humiliating
CHAPTER LIV.
PEACE AT LAST An Unfounded Rumor Starts Enormous
Jubilation--Armistice Signed Four Days Later--Kaiser Abdicates and
Flees to Holland--Cowardly Ruler Seeks Protection of Small Neutral
Nation--Looking Into the Future--Cost of War to the