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Legion Italienne withdrawn for rest, II, 56-57;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