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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