delayed by neutrality, II, 298;
labor assembled, II, 325;
labor conditions adjusted, II, 326;
Medical Reserve, II, 313;
navy transports troops to Europe, II, 340;
Officers' Reserve Corps, II, 313;
Officers' Training Camps, II, 314-315;
organizes mines, agriculture and factories, II, 299;
Pershing goes to France, II, 328;
plan to operate railways in France, II, 328;
Quartermaster General's problems, II, 329-334;
Red Cross hospital bases, II, 341;
Regular Army and National Guard increased, II, 304;
Selective Draft, II, 304, 305-312;
training of engineers, II, 337;
voluntary enlistment, II, 301

V

Van Deventer, General, in East Africa, III, 38

Vaux, fight for possession of, II, 18;
Germans gain at, II, 19;
taken by Second Division, III, 251

Vaux, Fort, captured by French, II, 23;
French victory at, II, 27

Venice, endangered in Italian retreat, III, 99-100

Venizelists, in Greece, III, 54-58

Venizelos, interview with, III, 54-67

Verdun, plateaus on either side the Meuse, II, 10;
relief map of, II, 10;
value of, II, 10

Verdun, Battle of, II, 7-29

Vierzy, taken by Second Division, III, 252

Vigneulles, taken by Americans, III, 256

Villers-Bretonneux, Germans checked at, III, 164

Vimy, in Picardy battle, III, 166

Vimy Ridge, German attacks on, II, 68

_Vindictive_, at Ostend, III, 111, 113-117;
in Ostend Harbor, III, 101;
work of, at Zeebrugge, III, 102-110

W

Walthamstow, air raid, I, 375-383

War, causes of, I, 7-40;
formally declared by the United States, II, 298

War Messages, II, 226-243

_Warrior_, sunk, II, 52

_Warwick_, at Zeebrugge, III, 110

Welland Canal, attack on, II, 291

Western Battle Front, August, 1916, Map of, II, 66

William II, Kaiser, eager to act, I, 28-30;
influence of, I, 16;
returns to Berlin, I, 23;
trip to Norway, I, 13;
ultimatum to Russia, I, 34-35

Wilson, Major General, cited for admirable work, I, 72

Wilson, President, addresses Congress on break with Germany, II,
192-204;
ideas on peace, II, 216;
note regarding peace, II, 214-215;
War Message of, II, 226-241

Wilson, Vice Admiral H.B., commands U.S. Naval forces in France,
III, 281

Y

_Yarrowdale_, prisoners from, II, 294-296

Ypres, air battles at, I, 265, 266-275;
First Battle of, I, 104-106;
Canadians at, I, 248-276;
Germans use gas projectiles, I, 242;
second battle of, I, 240-276;