_Roland G. Usher_

IX. THE FALKLAND SEA FIGHT 142
_A. N. Hilditch_

X. CRUISE OF THE EMDEN 176
_Captain Muecke_

XI. CAPTURE OF TSING-TAO 198
_A. N. Hilditch_

XII. GALLIPOLI 221
_A. John Gallishaw_

XIII. GAS: SECOND BATTLE OF YPRES 240
_Colonel E. D. Swinton_

XIV. THE CANADIANS AT YPRES 248
_By the Canadian Record Officer_

XV. SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA 277
_Judicial Decision by Judge J. M. Mayer_

XVI. MOUNTAIN WARFARE 313
_Howard C. Felton_

XVII. THE GREAT CHAMPAGNE OFFENSIVE OF 1915 322
_Official Account of the French Headquarters Staff_

XVIII. THE TRAGEDY OF EDITH CAVELL 348
_Brand Whitlock_

XIX. GALLIPOLI ABANDONED 366
_General Sir Charles C. Monro_

XX. THE DEATH-SHIP IN THE SKY 375
_Perriton Maxwell_

WHAT CAUSED THE WAR

BARON BEYENS

The National Review, June, 1916.

I

[Sidenote: Political designs of Francis Ferdinand.]

The Archduke Francis Ferdinand will go down to posterity without having
yielded up his secret. Great political designs have been ascribed to
him, mainly on the strength of his friendship with William II. What do
we really know about him? He was strong-willed and obstinate, very
Clerical, very Austrian, disliking the Hungarians to such an extent that
he kept their statesmen at arm's-length, and having no love for Italy.
He has been credited with sympathies towards the Slav elements of the
Empire; it has been asserted that he dreamt of setting up, in place of
the dual monarchy, a "triune State," in which the third factor would
have been made up for the most part of Slav provinces carved out of the
Kingdom of St. Stephen. Immediately after he had been murdered, the
_Vossische Zeitung_ refuted this theory with arguments which seemed to
me thoroughly sound.

The Archduke, said the Berlin newspaper, was too keen-witted not to see
that he would thus be creating two rivals for Austria instead of one,
and that the Serb populations would come within the orbit of Belgrade
rather than of Vienna. Serbia would become the Piedmont of the Balkans;
she would draw to herself