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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 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