Chapter 10 The Americans as Helpers It is one thing to become an ally, and quite another to have an army prepared to make our proffered alliance of value. After the indifference with which Germany met American protests in regard to the sinking of the Lusitania and the U-boat warfare, the thinking people of the…

Chapter 9 The Crumbling of Russia In 1916, the Allies had attacked the Central Powers on all sides, and they planned to do this again in 1917, but on a larger scale. There were great hopes that this course would bring the war to an end. Before anything could be done, however, an event came…

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Chapter 6 The War in 1915 By both words and deeds Germany had declared that she believed in conducting war with “frightfulness”; that is, with such cruelty and ferocity that her adversaries would in mortal terror yield to her at once. In accordance with this theory, she decided to destroy the Lusitania, a great passenger…

Chapter 5 The Troubles of Neutrals The old pictures of warfare with troops drawn up in opposing lines, graceful clouds of smoke rising here and there, and picturesque “tented fields” in the distance are quite out of date. In these days the men are hidden in trenches, often only two or three hundred yards apart,…

Chapter 4 Modern Methods of Warfare If some dead soldier of our Civil War could come to life and see the present methods of carrying on warfare, he would be far more dazed than Rip Van Winkle ever was. The trench system has already been spoken of. The use of camouflage, the disguise or concealment…