sporadic attempts at resistance.
Germany was forced to keep large bodies of troops along the Russian
front, but formally Russia's part in the war had come to an end.

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THREE MESSENGERS OF DESTRUCTION FOR TRIESTE
This remarkable photograph was taken from one French aeroplane just as
another had released three aerial torpedoes in a combined bombing and
observation raid on Trieste, the great Austrian naval base. The
photograph itself, showing details of enemy activity on the
waterfront, was of considerable value to the intelligence division of
the Italian army.

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Copyright G. V. Buck, Washington. D. C.
THE CARGO SUBMARINE "DEUTSCHLAND"
Shortly before the United States entered the war, Germany sent over a
merchant submarine with a cargo of dye stuffs and drugs, an implied
threat which was later realized in the U-boat attacks on the American
coast.

CHAPTER XXXII

GERMANY'S OBJECT LESSON TO THE UNITED STATES.

During the first two years of the war many Americans, especially those
in the West, observed the great events which were happening with great
interest, no doubt, but with a feeling of detachment. The war was a long
way off. The Atlantic Ocean separated Europe from America, and it seemed
almost absurd to think that the Great War could ever affect us.

In the year 1916, however, two events happened which seemed to bring the
war to our door. The first was the arrival at Baltimore, on July 9th, of
the Deutschland, a German submarine of great size, built entirely for
commercial purposes, and the second was the appearance, on the 7th of
October, of a German war submarine in the harbor at Newport, Rhode
Island, and its exploit on the following day when it sunk a number of
British and neutral vessels just outside the three-mile line on the
Atlantic coast.

The performances of these two vessels were equally suggestive, but the
popular feeling with regard to what they had done was very divergent.
The voyage of the Deutschland roused the widest admiration but the
action of the U-53 stirred up the deepest indignation. Yet the voyages
of each showed with equal clearness that, however much America might
consider herself separated from the Great War, the new scientific
invention, the submarine, had annihilated space, and America, too, was
now but a neighbor of the nations at war.

The voyage of the Deutschland was a romance in itself. It