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-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 Civilizat
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