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vasion of East Prussia--Von Hindenburg and Masurian Lakes--Battle of Tannenberg--Augustovo--Russians Capture Lemberg--The Offer to Poland CHAPTER X. STRUGGLE FOR SUPREMACY ON THE SEA The British Blockade--German Raiders and Their Fate--Story of the Emden's Remarkable Voyage--Appearance of the Submarine--British Naval Victory off Helgoland--U-9 Sinks Three British Cruisers CHAPTER XI. THE SUBLIME PORTE Turkish Intrigues--The Holy War--Mesopotamia and Transcaucasia--The Suez Canal--Turkey the Catspaw of Germany CHAPTER XII. RESCUE OF THE STARVING Famine in Belgium--Belgium Relief Commission Organized in London--Herbert C. Hoover--American Aid--The Great Cardinal's Famous Challenge CHAPTER XIII. BRITANNIA RULES THE WAVES German and British Squadrons Grapple off the Chilean Coast--Germany Wins the First Round--England Comes Back with Terrific Force--Graphic Picture of the Destruction of the German Squadron off Falkland Islands--English Coast Towns Bombarded for the First Time in Many Years. CHAPTER XIV. NEW METHODS AND HORRORS OF WARFARE Tanks--Poison Gas--Flame Projectors--Airplane Bombs--Trench Mortars--Machine Guns--Modern Uses of Airplanes for Liaison and Attacks on Infantry--Radio--Rifle and Hand Grenades--A War of Intensive Artillery Preparation--A Debacle of Insanities, Terrible Wounds and Horrible Deaths. CHAPTER XV. GERMAN PLOTS AND PROPAGANDA IN AMERICA Trailing the German Plotters--Destruction of Ships--Pressure on Congress--Attacks in Canada--Zimmerman's Foolish Effort to Embroil America with Mexico and Japan--Lies of the Propagandists After America Entered the War--Dumba, Von Bernstorff, Van Papen and Boy-Ed, a quartet of Unscrupulous Destructionists CHAPTER XVI. SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA The Submarine Murderers at Work--Germany's Blackband Warning--No Chance for Life--The Ship Unarmed and Without Munitions--The President's Note--Germany's Lying Denials--Coroner's Inquest Charges Kaiser with Wilful Murder--"Remember the Lusitania" One of America's Big Reasons for Declaring War CHAPTER XVII. NEUVE CHAPELLE AND WAR IN BLOOD-SOAKED TRENCHES War Amid Barbed-Wire Entanglements and the Desolation of No Man's Land--Subterranean Tactics Continuing Over Four Years--Attacks that Cost Thousands of Lives for Every Foot of Gain CHAPTER XVIII. STEADFAST SOUTH AFRICA Botha and Smuts, Rocks of Loyalty Amid a Sea of Treachery--Civil War t
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