SKATRE
OBSERVATION STATION IN A TREE NEAR THE MEMEL
GERMAN CRUISERS NEAR MEMEL
DISINFECTING CLOTHING IN A PETROGRAD HOSPITAL
GERDAUEN, EAST PRUSSIA, BURNED IN THE RUSSIAN INVASION
SERVICE IN A WAYSIDE CHAPEL IN GALICIA

AUSTRIAN TELEPHONE STATION
TRIUMPHAL ENTRY OF AUSTRIAN UHLANS INTO PRZEMYSL
RUSSIAN BRIDGE DESTROYED IN THE RETREAT TOWARD WARSAW
JAPANESE GUN AND AMMUNITION NEAR GRODNO
TEMPORARY BRIDGE ACROSS THE DRINA
AMERICAN DOCTORS IN SERBIA
SERBIAN DEAD IN THE PLAGUE OF TYPHUS
EFFECT OF TEUTON SHELLS ON THE FORTS AT PRZEMSYL, GALICIA

LIST OF MAPS

POLAND AND THE RUSSO-GERMAN FRONTIER (_Colored Map_)
WESTERN BATTLE LINE, JANUARY 1, 1915
NEUVE CHAPELLE, BATTLE AT
YPRES, GAS BATTLE OF
FIGHTING IN ALSACE-HARTMANNSWEILERKOPF
ARTOIS, BATTLES IN
GERMAN SUBMARINE WAR ZONE
EMDEN LANDING PARTY, CRUISE OF
CARPATHIAN PASSES AND RUSSIAN BATTLE LINE
PRZEMYSL, DETAIL MAPS OF THE FORTS OF
GALICIAN CAMPAIGN FROM TARNOW TO PRZEMYSL
GALICIAN CAMPAIGN FROM PRZEMYSL TO BESSARABIA
RIGA, GERMAN ADVANCE ON
WARSAW, GERMAN ATTEMPTS TO REACH, IN 1914
WARSAW, ADVANCE AND CAPTURE OF
NORTHERN ITALY, SHOWING THE WHOLE ITALIAN-AUSTRIAN FRONTIER
AND THE PART OF AUSTRIA DEMANDED BY ITALY

PART I--THE WESTERN FRONT

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CHAPTER I

PREPARATIONS FOR AN OFFENSIVE

During the greater part of the winter of 1914-15, the fighting
along the western front had been almost constant, but had resulted
in little that either side could justly assert to be a success.
The rigors inevitable in such a mode of warfare had become almost
beyond human endurance, and commanders on both sides looked forward
to a more active campaign.

An immense amount of ammunition had been stored by the French in
and around Perthes in anticipation of a forward movement; and, by
the second week of February, a quarter of a million men of the
French army had been assembled near that place. They were opposite
a section of the German trenches which was about twelve miles long,
extending from Ville-sur-Tourbe in the Argonne to the village of
Souain. Early in the year this section had been held by only two
divisions of Rhinelanders. These two divisions had suffered severely
from the heavy gun fire which the French had directed against them
by means of the successful work of the French aviators. The French
infantry also had done effective work in the short rus