With an Introduction
By GENERAL PEYTON C. MARCH
Chief of Staff of the United States Army

With Exclusive Photographs by
JAMES H. HARE and DONALD THOMPSON
World-Famed War Photographers
and with Reproductions from the Official Photographs
of the United States, Canadian, British,
French and Italian Governments

MCMXIX
LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY
New York

Copyright, 1918
Francis A. March

This history is an original work and is fully
protected by the copyright laws, including the
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CONTENTS
VOLUME II

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Chapter I. Struggle for Supremacyon the Sea
The British Blockade—German Raiders and Their Fate—Appearanceof the Submarine—British Naval Victory offHelgoland—U-9 Sinks Three British Cruisers[ 1]
Chapter II. The Sublime Porte
Turkish Intrigues—The Holy War—Mesopotamia andTranscaucasia—The Suez Canal—Turkey the Catspaw ofGermany[ 40]
Chapter III. Rescue of the Starving
Famine in Belgium—Belgium Relief Commission Organizedin London—Herbert C. Hoover—American Aid—The GreatCardinal’s Famous Challenge—The Soul of Belgium[ 74]
Chapter IV. Britannia Rules theWaves
German and British Squadrons Grapple off the ChileanCoast—Germany Wins the First Round—England ComesBack with Terrific Force—Graphic Picture of the Destructionof the German Squadron off Falkland Islands—EnglishCoast Towns Bombarded for the First Time in Many Years[ 114]
Chapter V. German Plots and Propagandain America
Trailing the German Plotters—Destruction of Ships—Pressureon Congress—Attacks in Canada—Zimmerman’sFoolish Effort to Embroil America with Mexico and Japan—Liesof the Propagandists After America Entered theWar—Dumba, von Bernstorff, von Papen and Boy-Ed, aQuartet of Unscrupulous Destructionists[ 146]
Chapter VI. Sinking of the Lusitania
The Submarine Murderers at Work—Germany’s BlackhandWarning—No Chance for Life—The Ship Unarmed andWithout Munitions—The President’s Note—Germany’sLying Denials—Coroner’s Inquest Charges Kaiser withWilful Murder—“Remember the Lusitania” One ofAmerica’s Big Reasons for Declaring War[ 177]
Chapter VII. Steadfast South Africa
Botha and Smuts, Rocks of Loyalty Amid a Sea of Treachery—CivilWar that Ended with the Drowning of GeneralBeyers and the Arrest of General De Wet—Conquest ofthe German African Colonies—The Trail of the Hun in theJungle[ 210]

ILLUSTRATIONS
VOLUME II

Torpedoing of the British Battleship, “Aboukir”[ Frontispiece]
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A Battle of Four Elements[ 6]
Escaping a Torpedo by Rapid Maneuvering[ 10]
Hide and Seek in the Baltic[ 22]
Driving the German Commerce Raiders from the Seas[ 26]
An Airplane Convoy[ 94]
United States Destroyers Throwing Out aSmoke Screen[ 130]
Germany Carries the War to East CoastTowns of England[ 134]
The Eye of the Submarine[ 138]
The Sinking of the German Cruiser“Blücher”[ 142]
Women at Work that Men may Fight[ 148]
The German Chancellors[ 164]
Kaiser William II of Germany[ 172]
German Piracy on the High Seas[ 180]
The Sinking of the Lusitania[ 188]

THE WORLD WAR