366

Verdun Gain up to August, 1916 369

Sector Where Grand Offensive was Started 379

English Gains, The 394

French Gains, The 406

Two Years of the War

August 18, 1914, When the Belgian Retreat to Antwerp
Began 465

August 23, 1914, After the Allies Had Lost All the First
Battles 467

September 6, 1914, the Battle of the Marne 471

September 20, 1914, the Deadlock 473

November 15, 1914, the End of the Western Campaign 475

October 24, 1914, the Battle of the Vistula 478

October 1, 1915, at the End of the Russian Retreat 483

The Conquest of Serbia, December, 1915 485

The Russian Spring Offensive, 1916 497

Austro-Italian Campaigns, May to September, 1916 500

PART I--AUSTRIAN PROPAGANDA

CHAPTER I

AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR IMPLICATED IN STRIKE PLOTS--HIS
RECALL--RAMIFICATIONS OF GERMAN CONSPIRACIES

Public absorption in German propaganda was abating when attention
became directed to it again from another quarter. An American war
correspondent, James F. J. Archibald, a passenger on the liner
_Rotterdam_ from New York, who was suspected by the British
authorities of being a bearer of dispatches from the German and
Austrian Ambassadors at Washington, to their respective Governments,
was detained and searched on the steamer's arrival at Falmouth on
August 30, 1915. A number of confidential documents found among his
belongings were seized and confiscated, the British officials
justifying their action as coming within their rights under English
municipal law. The character of the papers confirmed the British
suspicions that Archibald was misusing his American passport by acting
as a secret courier for countries at war with which the United States
was at peace.

The seized papers were later presented to the British Parliament and
published. In a bulky dossier, comprising thirty-four documents found
in Archibald's possession, was a letter from the Austro-Hungarian
Ambassad