The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) / From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914
O hearts ever youthful, like schoolboys at play, So be it with you in the thick of the fray; In the crash and the smoke and the roar of the fight, Be it yours, if it need be, to die for the Right! While deep in your heart a quick prayer shall arise To Him who looks down on the earth from the skies, For those whom you love in a faraway Home— O! shield them, our Father, whatever may come!
I. Gregory Smith.
( By permission of The Times. )
In our first volume we learned how the disunited states of Germany, under the leadership of Prussia, became welded together into a great empire on the ringing anvil of war. The German Empire had been created by the sword, and Germans had been taught to believe that only by the sword could it be maintained and increased. During less than half a century they had grown from poverty to riches and greatness, and this sudden rise to wealth and power had so turned their heads that they now deemed themselves entitled to world-empire. Mighty in industry and commerce, and possessed of the vastest and most highly organized weapon of war that the world has ever known, they nevertheless saw their ambitions thwarted again and again. They desired greatly a dominion beyond the seas, but colonies were hard to come by. With the failure of their attempts to expand they grew more and more embittered, until they believed that they were being robbed of their rightful due by the envy and greed of neighbouring Powers.
On their eastern border they saw the Russians daily recovering from the effects of the war against Japan, and so rapidly advancing in military strength as to be a real menace to that commanding position which they coveted. Their leaders feared that if Russia were not speedily crippled she would
While viewing the rise of Russia with mingled fear and contempt, they saw the British people, whom they had been taught to despise as a worn-out and wealth-corrupted race, holding dominion on every continent and in every sea, and unfurling their flag over one in four of all mankind. The spectacle was gall and wormwood to them, and they made no secret of their intention to wrest this vast empire from its present holders when the time was ripe. To this end they had built a great fleet, and their sailors drank to The Day when the lordship of the ocean should be theirs, and the overseas dominion of Britain the spoils of their triumph.
Edward Parrott
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British Aeroplanes attacking the Zeppelin Factory at Friedrichshafen.
On November 21, 1914, three British aeroplanes flew from France across the mountains into Germany, a distance of 250 miles, and dropped bombs on the Zeppelin factory at Friedrichshafen, on the shores of Lake Constance. Serious damage was done, and all the pilots but one returned safely. Another daring air raid was made on Christmas Day 1914 by seven aeroplanes on German warships lying off Cuxhaven.
THE
SIR EDWARD PARROTT, M.A., LL.D.
AUTHOR OF "BRITAIN OVERSEAS," "THE PAGEANT OF ENGLISH LITERATURE," ETC.
From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914
THOMAS NELSON AND SONS, Ltd.
A GLANCE BACKWARDS.
German Soldiers leaving Berlin for the Front.
SOME GERMAN THEORIES OF WAR.
The Effect of Shrapnel on Trenches.
The Effect of High Explosive Shells on Trenches.
FROM ARRAS TO ARMENTIÈRES.
FROM LILLE TO NIEUPORT.
The Battle of Malplaquet (September 11, 1709).
MAUD'HUY AT ARRAS, AND THE RETREAT FROM ANTWERP.
A Battle amidst the Coal Trucks of Lens.
WITH RAWLINSON IN BELGIUM.
THE LONG, THIN LINE OF STEEL AND VALOUR.
The Fighting about La Bassée.
THE WORK OF THE THIRD BRITISH CORPS.
British Cavalry entering Warneton.
STIRRING STORIES OF ANXIOUS DAYS.
Miss Jessica Borthwick steering the Grace Darling out of Ostend Harbour.
WITH THE SECOND CORPS.
THE INDIANS IN THE TRENCHES.
A Night Attack by Pathans.
Two London Scots and a Wounded Gurkha.
FIRE AND FLOOD.
British Monitors shelling German Trenches.
EIGHT DAYS OF STRUGGLE AND ANXIETY.
Diagram of the Ypres Salient.
Hands up! Capture of Germans near Langemarck by the Cameron Highlanders.
TALES OF HEROES.
French Officers examining a German Prisoner.
How Lieutenant Leach and Sergeant Hogan recaptured a Trench from the Germans.
THE CRISIS OF THE FIRST BATTLE OF YPRES.
The French and British Commanders in the Field—General Joffre and General Sir John French.
The Charge of the London Scottish at Messines, November 1, 1914.
THE PRICE OF VICTORY AND THE PASSING OF A HERO.
Funeral of Field-Marshal Lord Roberts: the Procession in the Rain, on the way to St. Paul's Cathedral, London.
TALES FROM THE TRENCHES.
MORE TALES FROM THE TRENCHES.
A Pleasant Scene in the Grand Place at Arras.
How Drummer Bent saved a Wounded Comrade.
GERMANY'S COLONIAL EMPIRE.
British Native Troops preparing to embark at Freetown, Sierra Leone, for the Kamerun.
GERMANY'S VANISHING COLONIES.
THE STORY OF THE "EMDEN."
Captain von Müller.
THE LAST OF THE "EMDEN," AND THE SEA FIGHT OFF CORONEL.
The Good Hope going down with her last Guns firing.
THE FALL OF KIAO-CHAU.
The city of Warsaw looking north-west across the Vistula, which here flows under the three bridges connecting the city proper with its suburb, Praga.
THE FIRST ATTACK ON WARSAW.
VON HINDENBURG FOILED.
STORIES FROM THE BATTLEFIELDS.
THE SECOND RUSSIAN ADVANCE ON CRACOW.
THE SECOND ASSAULT ON WARSAW.
Diagram showing the Russian Position behind the Marshes of the Bzura.
A German Battery overwhelmed by Cossacks.
WARSAW AGAIN SAVED.
The Battle of the Bzura. Russian Field Artillery in Action.
AT WAR WITH TURKEY.
FIGHTING IN CHALDEA.
THE CAMPAIGN IN THE CAUCASUS.
The Campaign on the Caucasian Frontier.
THE BATTLE OF THE SERBIAN RIDGES.
THE BATTLE OFF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS.
The Sinking of the Nürnberg by the British Light Cruiser Kent.
NAVAL RAIDS ON THE EAST COAST OF ENGLAND.
The Bombardment of Hartlepool, showing shells falling on the Battery at the end of the Pier.
WINTER IN THE TRENCHES.
The Prince of Wales making a Tour of the British Lines in Flanders.
"Three Cheers for the King!"
END OF VOLUME III.
