107, 108
Iris, in Ostend Harbor, III, 101
Iris, at Zeebrugge, III, 102-103, 105, 106
Irish, in Gallipoli fight, I, 227
Isonzo, filled by rain, retards enemy, III, 92;
in Austro-German offensive, III, 71, 75
Italian Retreat, army reaches Tagliamento, III, 96;
Austrian aeroplanes overhead, III, 95;
brilliant work of cavalry, III, 97;
civilians in, III, 90-91;
difficulties of, III, 82-91;
Importance of Tagliamento bridges, III, 91;
military stores evacuated or destroyed, III, 84-86;
stand on Piave, III, 99
Italians evacuate Bainsizza Plateau, III, 80;
evacuate Udine, III, 81;
expect Austrian push, III, 72;
tactics, I, 315, 318
Italy, American troops in, III, 268;
Legion Italienne withdrawn for rest, II, 56-57;
war on Alpine front, II, 55-65
J
Jacob Jones, U.S. destroyer, torpedoed, II, 378-384
Jagow, Herr von, on Austrian note, I, 15;
on mobilization, I, 35
Japan in the War, I, 198-220
Japanese characteristics, I, 198;
landing and advance of, I, 203-206;
losses at Tsing-tao, I, 220;
ultimatum, I, 199-200
Jellicoe, Sir John, commands at Jutland Bank, II, 30-45
Jerusalem, British advance toward, II, 366-368;
capture of, II, 343;
official entry into, II, 368
Joffre, General, announces plans to General French, I, 76;
appeals to troops, I, 323-324;
forms new Ninth Army, I, 75;
gives order to advance, I, 90;
letter of thanks from, I, 347;
resumes offensive, I, 98-99
Joffre and Haig, discuss plans for summer offensive, II, 67
Jutland Bank, II, 30-54
K
Kalahari Desert, III, 32
Kato, Japanese Foreign Minister, I, 199
Kato, Japanese Vice Admiral, I, 202
Kent, in Falkland fight, I, 161, 175
Keyes, Vice Admiral, commands Warwick at Zeebrugge, III, 102
Kiao-chau, blockade of coast, I, 202-203
Kigali, East Africa, III, 37
Kitchener, Earl, II, 188-193
Kivu Lake, East Africa, III, 37
Kleyer, Burgomaster of Liege, I, 47-51
Königsberg, in Rufiji River, III, 18
Kriemhilde Line, penetrated by Americans, III, 264
Kut-el-Amara, occupied by British, II, 181;
importance of, II, 183
L
Lansing, Secretary, note to German Government, I, 305-307
League of Nations, III, 306-316
Leipsic Salient, II, 77
Leipzig, in Pacific, I, 147-148
Leman, General, I, 43-61
Le Mort Homme (Dead Man Hill), attacks on, II, 18-22
Le Transloy, defenses of, II, 102
Leval, Maitre de, endeavors to aid Miss Cavell, I, 353-362;
opinion on German Courts, I, 352
Liege, Forts of, I, 54;
Germans enter, I, 49
Liggett, General Hunter, commands First Corps of First Army, III, 253;
commands First Army, III, 263
Lipsett, Lieutenant Colonel, at Second Ypres, I, 257-258
Littell, Colonel I.W., constructs cantonments, II, 320
Louvain, capture of, I, 61
Lusitania, torpedoed, I, 277-312
Luxembourg, invaded, I, 41
Lyman M. Law, sunk, II, 200
M
Macedonia, Bulgarians in, II, 247
Macedonia, in Falkland fight, I, 161-171
Macready, General, cited, I, 72
Mametz Wood, II, 78-79
Mangin, General, takes quarries of Haudromont, II, 22
Marne, American Third Division at Château-Thierry, III, 250;
description, III, 212-215;
Battle of the, I, 73-82; I; 91-95
Marne-Aisne District, character of country, III, 210-224
Marne-Vesle, topography, III, 211-212
Masaryk, Professor, leader of Czecho-Slovaks, III, 192
Massiges, capture of, I, 340-341
Mayo, Admiral, report of, III, 270-296
Mediterranean, German submarines in, II, 282
Menin Road, I, 270-272
Mesopotamia, value of, II, 174-175
Messines Ridge, in Battle of Picardy, III, 167-168
Meuse-Argonne Front, the final advance, III, 265-267
Meuse River, divides battlefield of Verdun, II, 10;
fighting on both sides of, II, 18
Mexico, German note to, II, 297
Mitteleuropa, apparently accomplished in 1915, III, 173;
Bulgaria only a link, III, 175;
crumbling of idea, III, 170
Monastir, advance on, II, 250
Monfalcone, III, 79-80
Mongolia, fires first shot at Germans, II, 270-277
Monroe Doctrine, II, 205-207
Mons, Allied line through, I, 62;
British retreat from, I, 70
Montdidier, First Division at, III, 250;
taken, III, 164
Monte Nero, cut off, III, 71
Montfaucon, taken, III, 259
Moscow, refugees in, II, 114, 116
Motor trucks, supply French at Verdun, II, 17
Mountain Warfare, I, 313, 321
Mücke, Captain of the Ayesha, I, 176-197
Mudros Harbor, I, 222
Mulhouse, capture of, I, 83-84
Munitions Board, Council of National Defense, II, 321
Murray, Sir Archibald, Lieutenant General, cited, I, 72
N
Namur, surrender of, I, 61
Napier, Rear Admiral, II, 39
National Army, II, 318
National Guard, II, 318
Naval War Council, III, 273-275
Navy, United States, transports troops to Europe, II, 340
Nestor, sunk, II, 52
Neutrality, armed, II, 220
New Zealanders, in Palestine Campaign, II, 361
Newfoundlanders, at Gallipoli, I, 221-238
Niblack, Rear Admiral, commands ships at Gibraltar, III, 286
Nicholas, Grand Duke, in Caucasia, II, 183-184
Nieuport, bombardment of, I, 110;
fight on the road to, I, 123
Ninetieth Division, at St. Mihiel, III, 255
Ninety-first Division, in Belgium, III, 264;
in Argonne, III, 259;
at St. Mihiel, III, 255
Nivelle, General, brings up 400 millimeter guns, II, 26
Nomad, at Jutland Bank, II, 52
Northey, General, advances in East Africa, III, 37
North Sea, battle of the, I, 85
North Star, British destroyer, sunk at Zeebrugge, III, 110
Nürnberg, in Pacific, I, 147-148
O
Oil, in Black Sea district, I, 136;
pipe line in Scotland, III, 286
Oil fields, in Persia, II, 175;
pipe line from Persian fields, II, 181
Okuma, Prime Minister of Japan, I, 199
Olympia, on coast of northern Russia, III, 286
Ostend, evacuated, I, 106
Ostend Harbor, blocking of, III, 111, 118
Ourcq, valley of, III, 219-223;
Forty-second on, III, 253
Ovillers, taken by British, II, 82
P
Palestine, Campaign, II, 344-366
Papen, Captain von, plots of, II, 287-289
Pare Mountains, III, 39
Patria, attacked, II, 283
Peace, Allies refuse a peace by compromise, III, 155
Peace Treaty, with Austria, III, 366-374;
with Germany, III, 318-365
Pershing, General John J., offers army to Foch for Picardy battle, III, 249;
report on American Army in Europe, III, 242-270;
sent to France, II, 339
Persia, British and Russian interests in, II, 174-176
Persis, sunk, II, 282
Petain, General, congratulates French at Verdun, II, 19;
uses 40,000 motor trucks, II, 17
Petrograd, refugees in, II, 116, 118-120
Petrolite, sunk, II, 282
Piave, Italians stand on, III, 99-100
Picardy, Battle of, III, 153-169;
fighting in Lens-Arras sector, III, 167;
French extend to join British at the Oise. III, 163;
German infantry advances, III, 162;
Germans bring divisions from Russia, III, 156;
Germans checked at Villers-Bretonneux, III, 164;
Germans take Albert, II, 164;
Germans take Messines Ridge, III, 167-168;
German objectives in the North, III, 168;
Montdidier falls, III, 164;
number of German divisions, III, 162;
opens, III, 153;
plan to drive through Amiens, III, 162;
Vimy and Notre Dame de Lorette, III, 166;
why attack was made here, III, 159-162
Plec Line, taken, III, 77
Plunkett, Rear Admiral, commands railway battery, III, 285-286
Poland, refugees from, II, 115
President Lincoln, torpedoed, III, 290-296
Press, German opinion misled, I, 23-24;
public opinion on peaceful settlement I, 15;
Serajevo tragedy, I, 10;
warning in New York papers, I, 284
Prince Heinrich Hill, I, 208-211
Pringle, Captain, commands destroyers at Queenstown, III, 276
Proclamation of War, II, 238-243
R
Radio, Bordeaux station, III, 285
Radoslavov, Premier of Bulgaria, resigns, III, 178
Railways, Balkan, II, 179;
Berlin to Bagdad, I, 129;
British and Belgian routes in Africa, III, 44;
in Africa, III, 43-44;
in Asia Minor, II, 179
Ramscapelle, destruction of, I, 117-118;
recaptured, I, 103
Rawlinson, General, commands Fourth Army at the Somme, II, 75;
commended by Haig, II, 83
Read, Major General, commands Second Corps, III, 251
Red Cross, establishes hospital bases, II, 341
Refugees, I, 46; II, 114-123
Regular Army, II, 318
Relief ships, attacks on, II, 292
Retreat of Allies, I, 62-72
Rheims, capture of, I, 82
Robertson, General, cited, I, 72
Rodgers, Rear Admiral, commands Division Six, III, 276
Rodman, Rear Admiral, commands Battleship Division Nine, III, 278
Roubaix, France, under German rule, II, 159
Rovuma River, III, 37
Rumania, Allied plan for operation in, II, 133;
army well drilled, II, 140;
danger in entering war, II, 124;
failure of defense in Dobrudia, II, 134
Rumania, King of, a Hohenzollern, II, 126;
personality, II, 126-127;
views, II, 127, 131
Rumanians, withdraw from Transylvania, II, 134
Russia, American troops in, III, 268;
declares war on Austria, I, 21-23;
defends Serbia, I, 14;
desires control of Constantinople, I, 126-127;
general mobilization, I, 38;
interests in Persia, II, 175-176;
likely to defend Serbia, I, 14;
partial mobilisation, I, 24-25;
receives ultimatum, I, 34-35;
revolution in, II, 258-270
Russian Army, effect of collapse on Italian situation, III, 74
Russian Campaign, 1916, II, 68;
in Caucasia, II, 183-186
Russian Refugees, children emaciated, II, 115;
in freight train in Moscow, II, 114-116;
number of, II, 116-117
Russian Revolution, barricade on the Litenie, II, 264;
Cossacks in, II, 253, 259-261;
Czar dissolves Duma, II, 255;
Duma takes command, II, 286;
people charged by police, II, 254;
soldiers join revolutionists, II, 267
S
Sailly-Saillisel, French attacks on, II, 102, 105
St. Julien, fighting at, I, 262, 264;
penetration of, I, 244, 246
St. Mihiel, Battle of, III, 254, 257
Saloniki, British operations at, II, 248, 250
Sambuks, cruise in, I, 191, 193
Samson, air adventure at Gallipoli, I, 232
Sand Dunes, I, 119, 120
Sazanoff, M., receives German ambassador, I, 27
Scharnhorst, in Falkland fight, I, 147, 170;
in Pacific, I, 147, 148
Second Division, at St. Mihiel, III, 255;
in drive for Soissons, III, 252;
takes St. Etienne, III, 262;
takes Beau Repaire Farm, and Vierzy, III, 252;
with French near Rheims, III, 261, 262
Seicheprey, Twenty-sixth in battle, III, 249
Selective Draft, classes exempt, II, 309;
liability to service, II, 304;
physical examination of men, II, 308;
registration, II, 305-312
Serajevo, assassination at, I, 10
Serbia, announcement of expedition against, I, 19;
defended by Russia, I, 14;
demands from, I, 11;
replies to ultimatum, I, 22-23;
ultimatum to, I, 14
Sergy, taken by Forty-second Division, III, 253
Seventy-eighth Division, in reserve at St. Mihiel, III, 255
Seventy-ninth Division in Argonne, III, 259
Shark, sunk at Jutland Bank, II, 52
Shipping Board, II, 340
Sixtus, Prince, emperor's letter to, III, 155-156
Smith-Dorrien, Sir Horace, services of, I, 69-70
Smuts, General Jan Christiaan, III, 32-53
Soissons, American First and Second Divisions in drive toward, III, 252;
Franco-American drive toward, III, 224-226;
entered by Allies, III, 226
Solf, Dr., opinion on German colonies, III, 47
Somme, Battle of the, II, 67, 113
Somme and Ancre, lines between, II, 71
Sparrowhawk, sunk at Jutland Bank, II, 52
Spee, Graf von, commands cruisers in the Pacific, I, 147-155;
in Falkland light, I, 162-170;
wins Coronel fight, I, 148-156
Struma River, bridged by British engineers, II, 250;
British positions on, II, 245;
rise hinders operations, II, 248
Subchasers at Corfu, III, 286
Submarine War Zone proclaimed, II, 219
Submarine Warfare, American lives lost, II, 279;
American vessels sunk, II, 200;
in the Mediterranean, II, 282;
American ships, II, 269-384;
proclaimed by Germany, II, 194, 196-197;
the Sussex case, II, 194-196
Submarines, hunt each other in the dark, II, 135-136
Submarines, American, III, 119-137;
cross the Atlantic, III, 119-124;
go out on patrol, III, 126-134;
how it feels to be depth-bombed, III, 131-132;
the mother ship, III, 124-125
Suez Canal, control of the, I, 138;
importance, I, 138
Summerall, Major General Charles P., III, 263
Sussex, torpedoed without warning, II, 283
Sussex Case, II, 194-196
T
Tagliamento, importance of bridges, III, 91
Taurus Mountains, Armenian, II, 184;
frontier of Egypt, II, 178
Thetis, at Zeebrugge, III, 102, 107
Thiaucourt, taken by Americans, III, 256
Thiaumont, II, 23-25
Thiepval, British advance on, II, 98-99;
in Somme battle, II, 76
Third Division, in reserve at St. Mihiel, III, 255;
on Marne, III, 251-252
Thirtieth Division, with British, III, 261
Thirty-fifth Division, in reserve at St. Mihiel, III, 255
Thirty-second Division, in reserve in Argonne, III, 259;
takes Hill 230, III, 253
Thirty-seventh Division, in Belgium, III, 264
Thirty-sixth Division, with French near Rheims, III, 261-262
Thirty-third Division, available for St. Mihiel, III, 255;
in Argonne, III, 258
Tigris, British on, II, 181
Tipperary, sunk, II, 52
Torcy, taken by Twenty-sixth Division, III, 253
Townshend, General, advances on Bagdad, II, 182
Treaty of Peace, with Austria, III, 366;
with Germany, III, 318-365
Trebizond, Turks flee toward, II, 183
Triumph, attacks Fort Bismarck, I, 216
Trones Wood, British troops in the, II, 78
Trucks, used at Verdun, II, 17
Tsing-tao, capture of, I, 198-220;
importance of, I, 200-201;
siege of, I, 207-220
Turbulent, at Jutland Bank, II, 52
Turkey, Anglo-Russian campaign in, II, 174-187;
dependence on Germany for aid, II, 179;
imperialistic designs, I, 129-130;
economic and strategic position of, I, 131-132;
military situation hopeless, III, 180;
reason for joining Germany, I, 132, 133;
reorganizing army, I, 134-135
Twenty-eighth Division, east of Rheims, III, 251;
relieves Thirty-second, III, 253
Twenty-ninth Division, in reserve in Argonne, III, 259
Twenty-seventh Division, with British in attack on Hindenburg line, III, 261
Twenty-sixth Division, at St. Mihiel, III, 255;
pivot of Soissons movement, III, 252-253
U
Udine, before the war, III, 69-70;
in war, III, 69-70;
evacuated by Italians, III, 81
United States, holds Germany responsible, II, 284;
neutrality endangered, II, 208;
prepares for war, II, 298-343;
protests to England, I, 281;
protests to Germany on submarine proclamation, I, 281
United States, military preparations of, II, 298-343;
Act to Increase Military Establishment, II, 300-301;
cantonment sites chosen, II, 319-320;
construction and supplies, II, 324-325;
Council of National Defense, II, 331;
Council of National Defense organized, II, 334;
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;
in battle of Picardy, III, 168
Ysaka Maru, sunk, II, 282
Yser, Germans trying to cross the, I, 116-117;
last ditch, I, 108
Z
Zeebrugge and Ostend, bottled up by British, III, 101-118
Zeppelins, raid England, I, 375-383
Zimmermann, Herr von, I, 35;
views of, I, 21-22