On the same day British naval forces attacked and brought down a Zeppelin in the North Sea. The airship was a total loss and apparently the entire crew perished.
On June 16, 1917, two Zeppelins attacked the East Anglian and Kentish coast. Considerable damage was done by the bombs dropped. Three deaths and injuries to about twenty people resulted. A British aeroplane succeeded in bringing down one of the Zeppelins, which, with its crew, was destroyed completely.
Three times in July, 1917, German aeroplane squadrons appeared in England. On July 4, 1917, about twelve attacked Harwich, a port in Essex; two of the planes were shot down, but not until the attackers had inflicted considerable damage, killed eleven people and injured thirty-six. Three days later, July 7, 1917, twenty aeroplanes bombed London, forty-three people were killed and 197 injured, while three of the German planes were destroyed. Again on July 22, 1917, fifteen to twenty German aeroplanes reached the English coast. Felixstowe and Harwich were raided. Eleven persons were killed and twenty-six injured. On the way back to their base one of the German planes was brought down off the Belgian coast.
During the third year of the war, that is from August, 1916, to August, 1917, air attacks on England caused death to 393 people and injuries to 1,174, according to figures compiled by the New York "Times." The same source claims that from the beginning of the war up to August 1, 1917, or during a period of practically three years, 751 people were killed and 2,007 injured in England as a result of German air raids, of which there were officially recorded eighteen in 1915, twenty-two in 1916, and eleven in the first seven months of 1917.
A fitting end to this chapter is the record of the deaths at the age of seventy-nine of the Zeppelin's inventor, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, which occurred at Charlottenburg on March 8, 1917, as a result of an attack of pneumonia.[Back to Contents]
INDEX
Abyssinia, Italian defeat in, I, [192]
Adige River, fighting along, V, [280]
Adige Valley, operations in, VI, [460]
Admiral Sims, commanding American destroyer flotilla, VI, [357]
Aerial combats, number of, V, [426]
Aerial maneuvering, French, IV, [55]
Aerial raids, VI, [492]
Aerodromes, attacks on, IV, [473]
Aerodromes, German, IV, [470]
Aeroplane attack by Germans on Lemnos, VI, [169]
Aeroplane coast battle, IV, [471]
Aeroplanes, losses in, VI, [255]
Aeroplanes, number of, V, [420]
Aeroplanes, western front, VI, [486]
Aeroplanes and submarines, I, [23]
Aeroplane warfare, VI, [168]-181
Aeroplane warfare on submarines, V, [414]
Africa, British possessions in, I, [181]
African coast, operations on, III, [493]
Agadir, I, [140]
Agar Khan, III, [24]
Aircraft, losses in, IV, [479]; VI, [51]
Air fighting, strategy and tactics of, IV, [459]
Air fights along the Somme, VI, [50]
Air raids on England, IV, [16]
Air raids on Paris, IV, [19]
Aisne, battle of, II, [130]-135
Aisne, counterattacks on the, VI, [248]
Alaska, garrisons in, I, [11]
Albania, Austrian advance, IV, [336]
Albania, Serbian retreat, IV, [303]
Albania, withdrawal of Serbian forces from, IV, [337]
Albanian uprising, I, [247]
Albanians, racial characteristics, I, [220]
Alcantara, merchantman, V, [59]
Alexander II, assassination, I, [152]
Alexander III and France, I, [152]
Alexandretta, III, [503]
Alexiev, General, commander in chief Russian army, VI, [429]
Algonquin, sinking of, by German submarine, VI, [317]
Allenstein, capture of, II, [437]
Allied aviators, work of, V, [421]
Allied commands in Champagne, IV, [80]
Allied demands on Greece, V, [224]-227
Allied nations, policy of, I, [105]
Allied offensive, March, 1915, IV, [45]
Allied raid, Houlthulst Forest, IV, [56]
Allies, withdrawal of, into Greece, IV, [308]
Alsace, French in, IV, [40]
Alsace-Lorraine, conditions in, I, [138]
Alsace and Lorraine, campaign in, II, [38]-45
Altkirch, capture of, IV, [40]
American airmen in France, VI, [490]
American army, I, [11]
American aviators, VI, [181], [490]
American citizens, rights of, defended by President Wilson, IV, [503]
American Commission to Russia, VI, [416]
American Congress, resolution on sinking armed merchantmen, IV, [502]
American destroyer flotilla, VI, [357]
American expedition in France, VI, [357]
American Government's assertion of neutral rights at sea, IV, [480]
American merchant marine, VI, [476]
American navy, strength of, I, [11]
American navy, work of, in foreign waters, VI, [357]
American negotiations over Ancona sinking, IV, [490]-496
American note to Austria on Ancona issue, character of, IV, [492]
American war preparations, VI, [328]
American Prussian treaties, VI, [298]
American response to German note on Sussex, V, [458]
American second note on Ancona issue, IV, [494]
American training camp in France, VI, [361]
American troops, transportation of, to France, VI, [358]
American vessels sunk, VI, [202]
American warships in European waters, VI, [482]
Anafarta Ridge, attack on, IV, [352]
Ancona, destruction of, IV, [490]
Ancona, yielding of Austria-Hungary on issue, IV, [494]
Ancre, British gains in, VI, [223]
Anglo-American trade balance, V, [52]
Anglo-Chinese conference, I, [184]
Anglo-French agreement, I, [136]
Anglo-Russian agreement, I, [136]
Anti-Catholic movement in France, I, [163]
Anti-Serbian riots, I, [260]
Antwerp, Belgian withdrawal to, IV, [40]
Antwerp, fall of, II, [167]
Anzacs, heroism of, III, [460], [462]
Appam, capture of, IV, [160]
Arabic, sinking of, IV, [150], [480]-490
Arabic, German version, IV, [483]
Arabs, assistance given British in Mesopotamia, IV, [423]
Arabs, confederation of, IV, [429]
Arbitration, failure of, I, [14]
Archibald papers, V, [11]
Area of British Empire, I, [286]
Area of France, I, [286]
Area of German Empire, I, [286]
Area of Russia, I, [286]
Argechu River, VI, [117]
Argonne, activity in, III, [158]
Argonne, campaign in, II, [193]-194
Argonne Forest, fighting in, IV, [48]
Argonne, German attacks in, in September, 1915, IV, [55]
Argonne, operations in, V, [375]
Argyll, loss of, IV, [154]
Armed-merchantman resolution, final form of, in Congress, V, [439]
Armed-merchantmen resolutions, debate in Congress, V, [434]-435
Armed neutrality, address of President Wilson, VI, [304]
Armed-shipping resolution in Congress, V, [436]
Armenian atrocities, III, [472]
Armenians, massacre of, IV, [378]
Army, American, strength of, I, [11]
Arras, Canadian victories at, VI, [56]
Arras, fourth blow by Haig, VI, [256]
Arras, operations around, IV, [127]
Arras, operations around, VI, [39]
Arras, second phase of, VI, [249]
Artillery, II, [366]
Artillery activity on the western front in September, 1915, IV, [55]
Artois, British successes in, IV, [85]
Artois, fighting in, III, [121]-128
Artois, French campaign in, IV, [85]
Artois sector, V, [373]
Asia Minor, Germany in, I, [50]
Asiago, Austrian advance, V, [256]
Asiatic Turkey, disorders in, IV, [377]
Asphyxiation from gas, I, [53]
Assassination of crown prince, Austrian report on, I, [350]
Athens, street fighting in, VI, [147]
Atkutur, battle at, III, [474]
Aubers Ridge, attacks on, III, [128]
Augustovo, Battle of, II, [444]
Ausgleich, I, [146]
Australians at Suvla Bay, IV, [356]
Australian troops at Pozières, V, [409]
Austria and Prussia, I, [127]
Austria-Hungary, American relations with, VI, [328]
Austria-Hungary, area of, I, [286]
Austria-Hungary, explanation of sinking of Ancona, IV, [465]
Austria-Hungary, position of, I, [142]
Austria-Hungary, request for recall of Dr. Dumba, V, [10]
Austrian air attacks on Italian cities, V. [291]
Austrian army, I, [309]
Austrian armies in Poland and Galicia, command of, IV, [181]
Austrian army in Serbia, IV, [259]
Austrian and Balkan nationality, I, [258]-259
Austrian captures of Durazzo, IV, [338]
Austrian note, July 27, 1914, I, [270]
Austrian counterattack, repulsed by Italians, V, [269]
Austrian defenses in Alps, IV, [394]
Austrian demands on Serbia, I, [261]-265
Austrian fleet in the Danube, VI, [97]
Austrian forces along the Italian front, increase of, V, [245]
Austrian-Italian aviators, V, [428]
Austrian-Italian front, V, [229]
Austrian losses at Lutsk, V, [159]
Austrian losses in Serbia, II, [343]
Austrian naval strength, II, [206]
Austrian note to Serbia, I, [261]
Austrian offensive in Trentino, V, [246]
Austrian offensive in Trentino, increase of, V, [235]
Austrian offensive in Volhynia, V, [138]
Austrian press, accusations, I, [353]
Austrian proposals to Rumania, III, [377]
Austrian raids on Italian coast, III, [394]
Austrian rupture with the United States, VI, [328]
Austrian squadron shells Italian coast cities, IV, [168]
Austro-German capture of Bucharest, VI, [119]
Austro-Hungarians defeated near Kuty, V, [190]
Austro-German invasion of Serbia, IV, [263]
Austro-German resistance to the Russians, VI, [73]
Austro-Hungarian press, I, [351]
Austro-Hungarian reply to Ancona note, IV, [492]
Austro-Italian line, V, [233], [234]
Austro-Russian front, III, [236]
Austro-Russian operations, resumption of, V, [133]-141
Aviators, loss among, V, [425]-426
Avlona, battle between Austrians and Italians near, V, [220]
Avlona, Italians at, IV, [327]
Avocourt Wood, German occupation of, V, [351]
Aylmer, General, IV, [446]
Azerbayan, failures in, III, [477]
Babuna Pass, resistance of Serbians, IV, [283]
Bagdad, British at, IV, [419]-425
Bagdad, expedition against, I, [62]
Bagdad, Russian advance, V, [330]
Baiburt, capture of, by Russians, V, [337]
Balfour, Arthur J., reply to Churchill, V, [61]
Balkan League, I, [248]
Balkans, conditions in, 1916, V, [212]
Balkans, countries, II, [275]-286
Balkans, diplomacy in, I, [59]
Balkans, summary of first year's conditions, IV, [255]
Baltic Sea, operations in, III, [191]
Ban-de-Sapt, attacks on, III, [164]
Bapaume, capture of, VI, [232]
Basra, capture of, II, [508]
Battle cruisers, British, lost in Jutland naval battle, V, [90]-91
Battle cruisers, importance of, I, [21]
Battle line on eastern front, II, [262]
Battle line on the eastern front in the spring of 1916, V, [116]
Battleships and fortifications, I, [24]
Battleships, advantages of, I, [21]
Battleships at Jutland battle, V, [80]
Bavarians, bravery of, at Eaucourt, VI, [30]
Beatty, Admiral, movements at Jutland naval battle, V, [75]-78
Beaucourt, attacks on, VI, [218]
Beaumont, abandonment of, by French, IV, [142]
Belgian coast, bombardment of, by British fleet, IV, [60], [112]
Belgian neutrality, I, [276]
Belgian neutrality, unity of powers, I, [476]
Belgian territory, alleged violation of, I, [283]
Belgian envoys, visit of, to United States, VI, [352]
Belgian withdrawal, IV, [40]
Belgium, American lessons from, I, [12]
Belgium appealed to powers guaranteeing neutrality, I, [384]
Belgium, area of, I, [287]
Belgium, location of, I, [197]
Belgium, attacks in, July, VI, [279]
Belgium, German attacks on the French lines in, VI, [250]
Belgium, operations in, VI, [61]
Belgium, German proposals to, I, [281]
Belgrade, bombardment of, IV, [265]
Belgrade, capture of, II, [347], [353]
Belgrade, riot following assassination of crown prince, I, [346]
Benckendorff, A., I, [320]
Berchtold, L., I, [324]
Berlin, Treaty of, I, [228]
Bernhardi, I, [83]
Bertie, Sir Francis, I, [317]
Bethlehem, efforts to start munition strikes in, V, 9
Bethmann-Hollweg, I, [323]
Bethmann-Hollweg, circular letter to powers, I, [368]
Bethmann-Hollweg's statement in Reichstag, I, [498]
Beyers, General, III, [70]
Bieberstein, Marshal von, II, [496]
Bight, Battle of, II, [208]
Bismarck Archipelago, II, [243]
Bismarck, growth of power of, I, [127]
Bismarck, retirement of, I, [134]
Bitlis, massacre at, IV, [378]
Bitlis, occupation of, by Russians, V, [293]
Blockade against Germany, III, [181]
Blücher, sinking of, II, [255]
Bolimow, fighting around, II, [470]
Bombs in trenches, I, [74]
Bosnia, annexation of, I, [147]
Bosnia, fighting in, II, [360]
Botha, General, III, [74]
Boy-Ed, Karl, activities, V, [14]
Brabant, abandonment of, by French, IV, [140]
Bregalnitza, battle of, I, [257]
Bremen, exploits of, VI, [190]
Brenta River, fighting along, V, [278]
Brescia, bombardment of, IV, [468]
Breslau, II, [494]
Brest-Litovsk, II, [447]
Brest-Litovsk, capture of, IV, [196]
Briand, resignation of, I, [170]
British in Macedonia, VI, [135]
British advance on Arras, VI, [251]
British aerodromes, IV, [473]
British air raids, IV, [18]
British, mobilization of, I, [304]
British attack around Lens, IV, [82]
British attacks on the Stuff Redoubt, VI, [49]
British attacks on Zeebrugge, VI, [482]
British cabinet declaration, I, [473]
British declaration of war against Germany, I, [283]
British East Africa, I, [180]
British Empire, area of, I, [286]
British expeditionary force, II, [34]
British expeditionary force landing in France, IV, [40]
British fleet shells Zeebrugge, V, [67]
British forces, disposition of, V, [380]
British and French offensive, VI, [27]
British and French successes, VI, [17]
British gains on the Somme, VI, [14]
British guns at Gallipoli, IV, [359]
British losses at Jutland naval battle, V, [94]-98
British losses to 1916, IV, [117]
British navy, effect on war, I, [18]
British offensive in Artois, IV, [82]
British operations south of the Ancre, VI, [39]
British policy of isolation, I, [42]
British position, August 1, 1915, IV, [46]
British position in Persia, IV, [419]
British prize court, proceedings, effect of, in United States, V, [32]
British raids on the German trenches, VI, [32], [39], [57]
British reverses in Belgium, VI, [281]
British seizure of ships of American registry, V, [49]
British shipping, loss to, IV, [170]
British squadron bombards Belgian coast in November, 1915, IV, [112]
British statement in regard to Greece, IV, [312]-313
British successes in Artois, IV, [85]
British successes near Ypres, VI, [264]
British at Jutland battle, V, [98]-104
British troops on the Ancre, successes of, VI. [224]
British troops, suffering of, at Kut-el-Amara, V, [320]
British use of tanks, VI, [21]
Brody, battle near, IV, [204]
Bruges, occupation of, II, [168]
Brussels, surrender of, II, [31]
Brussilov, in Galicia, V, [167]
Bryan, William Jennings, connection with peace propaganda, VI, [295]
Buchanan, Sir George, interview with Sazonof, I, [376]
Bucharest, capture of, VI, [119]
Buczacz, capture of, by Russians, V, [160]
Bukoba, capture of, III, [494]
Bukowina, operations in, IV, [227]
Bukowina, Russian occupation, III, [238]
Bukowina, Russian reconquest of, V, [162]-172
Bulgar attacks on Rumania, VI, [98]-102
Bulgaria, after second Balkan war, I, [257]
Bulgaria, conditions for neutrality, IV, [257]
Bulgaria, position of, III, [370]
Bulgarian army, IV, [270]
Bulgarian bombardment of Galatz, VI, [121]
Bulgarian declaration of war on Serbia, IV, [269]
Bulgarian demands, III, [378]
Bulgarian movements in Serbia, IV, [305]
Bulgarian pursuit of Serbians, IV, [209]
Bulgarians cross Greek frontier, V, [221]
Bulgarians, defeat of, in November, 1916, VI, [138]
Bullecourt, occupation of, VI, [261]
Burian, Baron, letter of Ambassador Dumba proposing munition strikes in United States, V, [9]
Bzura, battle along, II, [492]
Cadorna, General, III, [404]
Caillette Wood, German repulse at, V, [354]
Calais, air raids on, IV, [24]
Calais, bombardment of, by destroyer flotilla, VI, [482]
California, destruction of, VI, [292]
Cambon, J., I, [328]-330
Cameroons campaign, III, [62], [481]
Campbell-Bannerman, Sir, I, [185]
Canadians at Arras, VI, [56]
Canadians' capture of Vimy, VI, [241]
Canadians, raids by, VI, [222]
Candler, Edmund, description of operations in Mesopotamia, IV, [448]
Canopus, sinking of, II, [223]
Carency, surrender of, III, [125]
Carinthian front, bombardment by Italian artillery, V, [230]
Carlos I, murder of, I, [204]
Carnic Alps, conditions in, V, [289]
Carpathian fighting, VI, [91], [442]
Carpathian Mountain passes, advance of Russians toward. V, [207]
Carpathian Mountains, II, [275]
Carpathians, campaign in, III, [235]-241
Carso Plateau, attack on, by Italian artillery, VI, [155], [464]
Castelnau, General de, II, [43]
Catholics, movement against, in France, I, [163]
Cattaro, bombardment of, II, [359]
Caucasus, campaign in, IV, [380]
Caucasus, operations in, III, [9]
Caucasus, reasons for Russian offensive against, IV, [382]
Caucasus, the, II, [286]
Cavell, Edith, case of, IV, [98]-101
Central powers, area of, I, [286]
Central powers, homogeneity of, I, [291]
Central powers, military plans of, I, [33]
Central powers, position of, on the eastern front, V, [117]-121
Champagne campaign, IV, [62]
Champagne, French in, VI, [249]
Champagne, German attacks in, March, 1917, VI, [230]
Champagne offensive, IV, [61]
Charleroi, battle of, II, [54]-59; IV, [40]
Charles Francis Joseph, Archduke, V, [249]
Chemistry in war, I, [11]
Chicago meat packers' cases, V, [47]
Chino-Russian treaty, I, [154]
Church and State, separation of, I, [168]
Churchill, Winston Spencer, V, [61]
"Circular Note" to powers, I, [270]
Citizen soldiery, training of, I, [12]
City of Memphis, sinking of, VI, [317]
Climate in Mesopotamia as a factor in war, IV, [421]
Col di Lana, attack on, V, [231]
Collo, Italian successes in, IV, [413]
Colonial beginnings of Germany, I, [133]
Colonial possessions of Great Britain, I, [174]
Combes, I, [167]
Combles, British attack on, VI, [26]
Combles, repulse of German attack on, VI, [18], [25]
Concentration camps, VI, [350]
Confederation of North German States, I, [128]
Congress, American, McLemore resolution in, IV, [505]
Congress, opposition of, to President Wilson's policies, VI, [306]
Congress, war discussion in, V, [433]-438
Constantine of Greece, IV, [341]
Constantinople, operations in, IV, [475]
Constanza, attacks on, VI, [110]
Contalmaison, capture of, V, [397]
Cossacks, II, [383]
Cossacks, repulse of Turkish troops by, V, [303]
Cotes de Meuse, attack at, V, [348]
Council of Workingmen and Soldiers, VI, [405]-410
Courcelette, capture of, by the British, VI, [23]
Courland coast, bombardment of, by Russian torpedo boats, V, [194]
Courland, invasion of, III, [337]
Courland, operations in, IV, [185]
Cracow, attack on, II, [414]-416
Craiova, capture of, VI, [114]
Craonne, capture of, VI, [256]
Craonne, German attacks on, VI, [252]
Craonne sector, operations around, July, 1917, VI, [282]
Ctesiphon, battle of, IV, [437]-443
Cumières, German attempts to retake, V, [347]
Curtain of fire, I, [74]
Cyril, Grand Duke, II, [486]
Czar of Russia, escape from aeroplane bomb, V, [429]
Czarina, influence of, VI, [373]
Czernowitz, capture of, V, [169]
Czernowitz, retreat at, II, [413]
Dankl, retreat of, II, [392]
Danube, Rumanian raid across the, VI, [102]-111
Dardanelles, aeroplanes at, I, [23]
Dardanelles campaign, abandonment of, reasons for, IV, [363]
Dardanelles, naval attacks, III, [174]-179
Dates, important, I, [325]-329
Death's Head Hussars, II, [154]
Delarey, General, III, [73]
Delcassé, Théophile, I, [319]
Deniécourt, capture of, VI, [26]
Denman, William, controversy with General Goethals, VI, [343]
Destroyers, achievements of, I, [17]
Deutschland, V, [111]-112
De Wet, General, III, [70]
Diarbekr, struggle for, V, [299]-306
Diplomacy in the Balkans, I, [59]
Diplomatic exchanges, first, I, [322]
Diplomatic papers, I, [313]
Disraeli, I, [179]
Dixmude, III, [166]
Dixmude, British and French attacks at, VI, [287]
Dixmude, German attack on, IV, [87]
Djemel Pasha, II, [500]
Doberdo, operations along, V, [232]
Dobrudja, operations in, VI, [101]
Dobrudja, situation in, October, 1916, VI, [109], [112]
Dolomite district, Italian successes in, IV, [397]
Dolomite passes, fighting in, III, [393]
Dolomites, operations in, V, [243]
Douai, aeroplane attack on, IV, [474]
Douaumont, French attempts to retake, V, [363]
Douaumont, French recapture of, VI, [34]
Douaumont, German attack at, V, [344]
Dresden, German raider, III, [182]
Dreyfus affair, I, [165]
Dubno, fortress, capture of, V, [161]
Dubno, fortress, strength of, IV, [210]-211
Dukla Pass, fighting at, III, [261]
Duma, defiance of czar by, VI, [389]
Duma, disturbance in, VI, [394]
Duma, inability of, to meet crisis, VI, [392]
Duma, meeting of, in 1916, VI, [383]
Dumba, Dr., explanation of efforts to V, [9]
Dumba, Dr., recall of, by Austro-Hungarian government, V, [11]
Dunajec, battle of, III, [267], [273]
Dunkirk, bombardment of, by German destroyers, VI, [482]
Durazzo, Austrian capture of, IV, [328]
Durazzo, evacuation of, IV, [414]
Dvina, crossing, by Russians, VI, [89]
Dvina, Russian attempt to cross, VI, [80]
Dvinsk, fighting around, IV, [213]
Dvinsk, fortress, strength of, IV, [214]
Dvinsk, Russian bombardment around, V, [143]