CONTENTS
This collection of stories for VOLUME II has been selected by the Board of Editors, according to the plan outlined in "Introductory" to Volume I for preserving the "Best Stories of the War" from the most authentic sources in Europe and America. These pages record 144 personal adventures and episodes told by twenty-four Diplomatists, Attachées, Aviators, Naval Officers, French Mothers, German Spies, Soldiers and Eye-Witnesses. Full credit is given in every instance to the original source.
VOLUME II—TWENTY-FOUR STORY-TELLERS—144 EPISODES
| "BEHIND THE SCENES IN WARRING GERMANY" | [1] |
| Told by Edward Lyell Fox | |
| (Permission of Robert M. McBride and Company) | |
| THE "EMDEN"—AN EPIC OF THE GREAT WAR | [24] |
| EXPERIENCES ABOARD A GALLANT LITTLE FIGHTING SHIP | |
| Told by Kapitanleutnant Hellmuth Von Mücke | |
| (Permission of Ritter and Company) | |
| "THE WAY OF THE CROSS"—A TRAGEDY OF THE RUSSIANS | [45] |
| THE MILLIONS WHO HAVE BECOME BEGGARS | |
| Told by V. Doroshevitch | |
| (Permission of G. P. Putnam's Sons) | |
| THE NOTEBOOK OF AN ATTACHÉ IN THE EMBASSY AT PARIS | [61] |
| A DISPATCH-BEARER IN THE AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC | |
| SERVICE | |
| Told by Eric Fisher Wood | |
| (Permission of The Century Company) | |
| 'NEATH VERDUN—BEHIND THE CROWN PRINCE'S ARMY | [79] |
| Told by Lieutenant Maurice Genevoix | |
| (Permission of Frederick A. Stokes Company) | |
| ON THE ANZAC TRAIL—WITH THE FIGHTING AUSTRALASIANS | [101] |
| ADVENTURES OF A NEW ZEALAND SAPPER | |
| Told by "Anzac" (Name Suppressed) | |
| (Permission of J. B. Lippincott Company) | |
| WITH BOTHA'S ARMY IN GERMAN SOUTHWEST AFRICA | [121] |
| ON THE ROAD TO CAPETOWN | |
| Told by J. P. Kay Robinson | |
| (Permission of E. P. Dutton and Company) | |
| LAST WORDS OF A "SOLDIER AND DRAMATIST" | [140] |
| LETTERS OF HAROLD CHAPIN | |
| (Permission of John Lane Company) | |
| THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE—PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF AN | |
| AMERICAN WAR CORRESPONDENT | [158] |
| Told by Stanley Washburn | |
| (Permission of Doubleday, Page and Company) | |
| A FRENCH MOTHER IN WAR TIME | [170] |
| BEING THE JOURNAL OF MADAME EDOUARD DRUMONT | |
| Translated by Grace E. Bevir | |
| (Permission of Longmans, Green and Company) | |
| "THE FALL OF TSINGTAU"—THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST | [186] |
| WITH THE JAPANESE IN THE ORIENT | |
| Told by Jefferson Jones | |
| (Permission of Houghton, Mifflin and Company) | |
| WITH MY REGIMENT—BRITONS ON THE FIELD OF HONOR | [195] |
| FIGHTING FROM THE AISNE TO LA BASSEE | |
| Told by a "Platoon Commander" | |
| (Permission of J. B. Lippincott Company) | |
| THE STORY OF COUNT SEILERN | [204] |
| A TRAGEDY OF THE HAPSBURGS | |
| (Permission of Wide World) | |
| TURNING HEAVENS INTO HELL—EXPLOITS OF CANADIAN | |
| FLYING CORPS | [228] |
| BATTLE IN AIR WITH ONE HUNDRED AEROPLANES | |
| Told by Officer of Royal Canadian Flying Corps | |
| (Permission of New York Herald) | |
| "THE LEGION OF DEATH"—WOMEN SOLDIERS ON THE FIRING-LINE | [235] |
| HOW THE RUSSIAN, SERBIAN, AND GERMAN WOMEN GO TO WAR | |
| Told by Officers and Eye-Witnesses from the Battlefields | |
| THE TALE OF THE "TARA" OFF THE AFRICAN COAST | [253] |
| RESCUED BY "TANKS IN THE DESERT" | |
| Told by Survivors, set down by Lewis R. Freeman | |
| (Permission of Wide World) | |
| THE WHITE SILENCE—WINTER IN THE CARPATHIANS | [274] |
| IN THE SNOW-CLAD MOUNTAINS WITH THE AUSTRIANS | |
| Told by Ludwig Bauer | |
| (Permission of New Yorker Staats-Zeitung and New York | |
| Tribune) | |
| "MY TEN YEARS OF INTRIGUE IN THE KAISER'S SECRET SERVICE" | [282] |
| THE PLOT TO DYNAMITE THE WELLAND CANAL | |
| Told by Horst Von Der Goltz | |
| (Permission of Robert M. McBride and Company and New | |
| York World) | |
| REAL-LIFE ROMANCES OF THE WAR | [298] |
| Told by Malcolm Savage Treacher | |
| (Permission of Wide World) | |
| THE IRISHMEN OF THE FIGHTING TENTH AT MACEDONIA | [326] |
| Told by One of the Fighting Irishmen | |
| (Permission of London Weekly Despatch) | |
| THE ARTIFICIAL VOLCANO | [334] |
| AN INCIDENT OF THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN IN THE DOLOMITES | |
| Told by Capitano Z——, of the Royal Italian Engineers | |
| (Permission of Wide World) | |
| LAST HOURS OF EDITH CAVELL ON NIGHT OF EXECUTION | [342] |
| EXPERIENCE OF AMERICAN DIPLOMAT IN EFFORT TO | |
| SAVE LIFE OF ENGLISH NURSE | |
| Told by Hugh Gibson | |
| (Permission of World's Work) | |
| A BAYONET CHARGE IN PICARDY | [353] |
| Told by a British Army Captain | |
| (Permission of Current History) | |
| THE SLAUGHTER AT DOUAUMONT | [359] |
| Told by a French Soldier |
British Official Photo, by International Film Service.
BASEBALL PLAYERS AND CRICKETERS MAKE
GOOD GRENADE THROWERS
Position No. 1 in Bombing
THE HELL OF "LIQUID FIRE" WHICH HAS BECOME A REGULAR PART OF WAR