vasion of East Prussia--Von Hindenburg and Masurian Lakes--Battle of
Tannenberg--Augustovo--Russians Capture Lemberg--The Offer to Poland
CHAPTER X. STRUGGLE FOR SUPREMACY ON THE SEA
The British Blockade--German Raiders and Their Fate--Story of the
Emden's Remarkable Voyage--Appearance of the Submarine--British Naval
Victory off Helgoland--U-9 Sinks Three British Cruisers
CHAPTER XI. THE SUBLIME PORTE
Turkish Intrigues--The Holy War--Mesopotamia and Transcaucasia--The
Suez Canal--Turkey the Catspaw of Germany
CHAPTER XII. RESCUE OF THE STARVING
Famine in Belgium--Belgium Relief Commission Organized in
London--Herbert C. Hoover--American Aid--The Great Cardinal's Famous
Challenge
CHAPTER XIII. BRITANNIA RULES THE WAVES
German and British Squadrons Grapple off the Chilean Coast--Germany
Wins the First Round--England Comes Back with Terrific Force--Graphic
Picture of the Destruction of the German Squadron off Falkland
Islands--English Coast Towns Bombarded for the First Time in Many
Years.
CHAPTER XIV. NEW METHODS AND HORRORS OF WARFARE
Tanks--Poison Gas--Flame Projectors--Airplane Bombs--Trench
Mortars--Machine Guns--Modern Uses of Airplanes for Liaison and
Attacks on Infantry--Radio--Rifle and Hand Grenades--A War of
Intensive Artillery Preparation--A Debacle of Insanities, Terrible
Wounds 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
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