Frank H. Simonds

The War Correspondent
Arthur Ruhl

Edited by

Francis J. Reynolds
Former Reference Librarian of Congress

Allen L. Churchill
Associate Editor, The New International Encyclopedia

Francis Trevelyan Miller
Editor in Chieft, Photographic History of the Civil War

P. F. Collier & Son Company
New York

[Illustration: _Kaiser Wilhelm II, German Emperor, inspecting
Austro-Hungarian troops on the East Galician front, New Year's Day,
1916. At the Kaiser's left is General Count von Bothmer_]

THE STORY OF THE GREAT WAR

Champagne . Artois . Grodno
Fall of Nish . Caucasus
Mesopotamia . Development
of Air Strategy . United
States and the War

VOLUME IV

P . F . Collier & Son . New York

Copyright 1916
By P. F. Collier & Son

CONTENTS

PART I.--WAR IN SYRIA AND EGYPT

CHAPTER Page

I. Renewed Turkish Attempts 9

PART II.--WAR IN THE AIR

II. Raids of the Airmen 16

III. Zeppelins Attack London--Battles in the Air 29

IV. Venice Attacked--Other Raids 34

PART III.--THE WESTERN FRONT

V. Summary of First Year's Operations 39

VI. Fighting in Artois and the Vosges 46

VII. Political Crisis in France--Aeroplane Warfare--Fierce
Combats in the Vosges--Preparations for Allied
Offense 52

VIII. The Great Champagne Offensive 61

IX. The British Front in Artois 81

X. The Battle of Loos 90

XI. The Cavell Case--Accident to King George 98

XII. Operations in Champagne And Artois--Preparations for
Winter Campaign 104

XIII. Events in the Winter Campaign 117

XIV. The Battle of Verdun--The German Attack 131

PART IV.--THE WAR AT SEA

XV. Naval Situation at the Beginning of the Second
Year--Submarine Exploits 143

XVI. The Sinking of the Arabic--British Submarine Successes 150

XVII. Cruise of the Moewe--Loss of British