PAGE Attack on Zeebrugge 251 Ostend Harbor 254 French Troops Charging Protected by Large French Tank, 1918 257 British Camp in Palestine 262 British Auxiliary Troops Advancing in Palestine 263 French Aëroplane Photograph of Advance Attack in Three Waves Dug in to Escape Observation 268 French Temporary Trenches to Stop German Advance, March, 1918 269 March, 1918 271 German Offensive, March-June, 1918 274 British Midnight Counter-attack during German Offensive, March, 1918 281 British Battery Advancing over Plank Road to Stop German Offensive, 1918 283 French Official Photograph of American Regulars Leaving the Trenches for the Assault on Cantigny 287 French Official Photograph of American Regulars "Mopping up' Aëroplane Photograph of American Assault in Three Weeks, 1918. brush from Aëroplane Observation The St. Mihiel Salient The Four German Defense Lines and First Operations of Foch German Shelter for Large Gun to Conceal it from Aëroplane Observation 291 296 305 312 314 Position of Germans during the Fourth Week of October, 1918. The Territory Surrendered by the Germans at the Armistice The Rearrangement of Europe to which the Allies Pledged Themselves 324 330 333 THE STORY OF THE GREAT WAR CHAPTER I THE OUTBREAK NOT in the limp and bleeding body of an Austrian Archduke, lay the cause of the great world war. That assassination, the work of an obscure rascal in a practically unknown city of southeastern Austria, was the formal excuse for the demands made by Austria upon Serbia which were the technical reasons for the war's outbreak. It was the work of men, the Austrians said, who meant to destroy Austria-Hungary; the work of men in Serbian and Russian pay; the result of a secret conspiracy against Austrian unity. A scene connected with the assassination occurred in Berlin. There, in a splendid room, was a magnificent table, covered with damask, glittering with cut glass, spread with a profusion of flowers and expensive food. Around it sat officers of the German army, clad in their finest uniforms. At the head of the table, none other than the Crown Prince himself. He rose in his chair and said, "Gentlemen, I toast - To the Day." They leaped to their feet, and drained their glasses and cheered again and again. To what day? He meant to the day when war should be declared between Germany and England. |