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hat 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-
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