INDEX

Administration, criticisms of, 118

Aerial warfare, 260-268

Air, mastery of, by Allies, 312

Aisne, American troops along, 365

Aisne area, German wedge in, 312

Aisne, French attack north of, 47

Aisne, French offensive of October, 1917, 48

Allied counteroffensive, beginning of, 328

Allied opinion of American troops, 393

Allied Powers' attitude toward Pope's proposals, 99

Allied prisoners in May offensive, 310

Allied War Conference, results of, 80

Alsace, French operations in, 56

Alsace, operations in January, 1918, 74

America at Allied War Conference, 77

American army, scope of operations, 81

American artillery near Rheims, 364

American coast, German submarines along, 464

American cooperation with Australians, 399

American cooperation with French, 405

American declaration of war with Austria-Hungary, 105

American engineers at Chauny, 368

American engineers, deeds of, at Cambrai, 94

American expeditionary force in France, 83

American fishing schooners, sinking of, by submarines, 467

American force in the great offensive, 377

American forces in France, 351

American forces on Murman coast, 441

American front, extent of, 373

American front, winter conditions on, 96

American Independence Day, celebration of, by Allies, 321

American losses on sea, 463

American participation in Siberia, 449

American prisoners first taken by Germans, 88

American reenforcement of Allies, 371

American soldiers first killed in battle, 91

American successes at Jaulgonne, 327

American successes at Seicheprey, 360

American successes at Xivray, 364

American successes west of Soissons, 329

American troops, Allied opinion of, 393

American troops, first engagement of, 86

American troops in Italy, 346

American troops, training of, in France, 84, 85

American troops, urgent need of, 82

Amiens, April offensive against, 289

Amiens, German threats against, 274

Amiens-Paris railway, German efforts to capture, 289

Anglo-French forces in Italy, 207

Ansonia, British transport, sinking of, 464

Arabia, campaigns in, 238-240

Arras, operations around, in March, 1918, 281

Artillery, American, work of, at Belleau Wood, 390

Asiago sector, operations in, 213

Australians at Polygon Wood, 40

Australians, defeat Germans at Morlancourt, 304-306

Australians in Flanders, 36

Australian troops, successes of, 320

Austria-Hungary, American declaration of war with, 105

Austrian attitude toward peace, 110

Austrian defense of Russian invasion, 340

Austrian prisoners taken by Italians, 189

Austrian reply to Pope Benedict, 101

Austrian retreat in Italy, 458

Austro-German offensive in Italy, 200-213

Aviators, American, training of, 120

Aviators, French and British, work of, around Lens, 21

Bagdad, operations around, 242

Bailleul, capture of, by Germans, 295

Baker, Secretary, criticism of, 114

Baker, Secretary, statement of performances by, 115

Bapaume, German attacks against, in March, 1918, 280

Bavarian troops, capture of British trenches by, 73

Belgium, British air raids in, 75

Belleau Wood, American marines in, 381, 384

Belleau Wood, description of fighting in, 388

Belleau Wood, German assaults against, 387

Below, General Fritz von, attacks Rheims salient, 317, 379

Below, General Otto von, commanding German seventh army, 273

Bessarabia, annexation to Rumania, 438

Böhm, General, facing French third army, 274

Boehm, General von, commanding German troops on the Marne, 327

Bolsheviki, emergence of, 135

Bolsheviki leaders, characteristics of, 147-153

Bolsheviki negotiations with Germany, 155

Bolsheviki propaganda, attempt to spread, 417

Bolshevist revolution, 142

Bombing raids in Germany, 477

Bouresches, capture of, by American marines, 384

Bouresches, German attempts to retake, 391

Bourlon Wood, British withdrawal from, 67

Bourlon Wood, fighting in, 62

Brest-Litovsk conference, renewal of, 418

Brest-Litovsk negotiations, result of, 420

Brest-Litovsk, peace negotiations at, 163

Brilliant, sunk to block the harbor of Zeebrugge, 470

British assault at Ypres in October, 43

British center, withdrawal of, 293

British counterattacks at Merville, 318

British operation in Flanders in 1917, 30

British successes between Ancre and Somme Rivers, 304

Bullecourt, German operations around, 72

Byng, General Sir Julian, commanding British third army, 273

Cadorna, General, preparations of, 201

Cadorna, General, superseded by Diaz, 209

Cambrai area, German gains in, 66

Cambrai, deeds of American engineers at, 94

Cambrai, fighting around, in March, 1918, 276

Cambrai, operations around, 60

Cambrai salient, German assaults against, 285

Camp conditions, investigation into, 117

Canadians, capture of Passchendaele by, 55

Canadian successes around Lens, 23

Canadian troops at Lens, 10

Cantigny, capture of, by Americans, 374

Carey, General, closes gap before Amiens, 369-371

Carpathia, sinking of, 467

Cattaro, naval mutiny at, 474

Champagne, French activities in, 34

Château-Thierry, American defense of, 380

Château-Thierry, Americans at, 378

Château-Thierry, evacuation of, by Germans, 331

Château-Thierry, German advance upon, 308

Chemin-des-Dames, German assault upon, 307

Chemin-des-Dames, German retreat from, 54

Coal famine in United States, 131

Coblenz, British air raids on, 482

Commodity prices, rise of, 125

Concrete blockhouses, German system fails, 37

Conflans, bombing of, by British airplanes, 477

Congress, war appropriations by, 111

Congressional investigation into camp conditions, 117

Constituent assembly, dissolution of, 183

Cossacks, rebellion of, 160

Council of the Russian Republic, 141

Courtrai, British air raids upon, 479

Czecho-Slovaks in Siberia, 444

Czernin, Count, address on Wilson's peace aims, 109

Daimler motor works, British air raids on, 481

Dead Man Hill, capture of, by France, 26

Democratic Congress in Petrograd, 140

Destroyers, employment of, 120

Diaz, General Armando, American troops under, 346

Diaz, General Armando, Italian commander in chief, 209

Dieterichs, General, 446

Dixmude, German attacks upon, 270

Drafted men, first engagement of, 395

Dukhonin, General, murder of, 160

East Africa, conquest of, 244

Einem, General von, commanding German troops in Champagne, 327

Embargo on neutral exports, 128

Engineers, American, at Chauny, 368

Engineers, American, deeds of, at Cambrai, 94

Epieds, American struggle for, 409

Explosive capsules used by Germans, 14

Fère-en-Tardenois-Buzancy line, fighting along, 338

Finland, agitation for separate Government, 140

Finland, attitude toward the Germans, 431

Finland, German operations in, 431

Finland, relations with Russia, 183

Finnish Government, aims of, 431

First American army corps, 400

Fishing schooners, American, sinking of, by submarines, 467

Fismes, American arrival at, 416

"Flaming bullets," use of, by Germans, 38

Flanders, Franco-British offensive, 9

Flanders, general British offensive in, 46

Flanders, German raids in, March, 1918, 272

Foch, General Ferdinand, appointment as generalissimo, 283

Foch, General Ferdinand, begins counteroffensive, 405

Foch, General Ferdinand, success in counteroffensive, 406

Food administration, campaign of, 127

Food as a war factor, 124

Food control, governmental, 125

Food exports to neutral countries, 128

Food substitutes, 126

Fourteen articles for peace, 106

Franco-British offensive in Flanders, 9

French advance in Flanders in October, 1917, 51

French attack north of the Aisne, 47

French counterattack at St. Quentin, 16

French offensive at Verdun, renewal of, 28

Fresnoy, British air raids upon, 480

Garfield, Harry A., Federal fuel administrator, 131

George, Lloyd, statement in relation to peace, 103

German activities in February, 1918, 269

German advance in Russia, 422

German aggressions in Russia, 429-431

German artillery operations around Cambrai, 71

German assault against American troops, 366

German assaults on American lines, 356

German assaults on the Meuse, 39

German attack in Flanders, 37

German attacks against Americans in Lorraine, 347

German casualties at Seicheprey, 362

German cities bombed by British aviators, 476

German comments on American troops, 89

German counterattacks in Bourlon Wood, 63

German defeat by Americans in Lorraine, 355

German defense, changes in, 21

German defense, weakness of, 44

German destroyers, raid of, 468

German discussion of Wilson's fourteen articles, 106

German evasion of American strength, 400

German loss in great offensive, 303

German losses in October offensive, 44

German losses in retreat across the Marne, 404

German March offensive, results of, 286

German March offensive, second phase of, 284

German offensive around Cambrai, 69

German offensive, checking of, 288

German offensive in Flanders, March, 1918, 273

German offensive, renewal of, 306

German opinion of American troops, 394

German peace terms, acceptance of, by Russia, 425

German prisoners, 330

German prisoners in great British offensive, 62

German prisoners taken at Ypres, 41

German prisoners taken by the French in October offensive, 53

German reenforcements from Russia, 282

German reply to Pope Benedict, 100

German repulse at Lens, 12

German repulse by Americans at Jaulgonne, 379

German retreat, beginning of, 330

German retreat, continuation of, 336

German retreat from Château-Thierry, 381

German retreat to Oureq River, 335

German reverses west of the Oise, 315

German ships seized by America, 123

German strength at Verdun, 42

German strength in great March offensive, 275

German strength in third offensive, 325

German strength on Franco-British front in November, 1917, 70

German strength on western front in January, 1918, 76

German terms of peace with Russia, 176-179

German third offensive, beginning of, 325

German troops from Russia, 76

German troops in Russia, 422

Germans, hatred of, in Russia, 443

Germans in American uniforms, 411

Gough, General Sir Hubert, commanding British fifth army, 273

Glenart Castle, sinking of, 462

Gouzeaucourt, capture of, by Germans, 65

Governmental control of railroads, 133

Greece, conditions in, 247

Guynemer, George, death of, 39

Haig, Field Marshal, attacks east of Ypres, 35, 40

Haig, Field Marshal, strikes at Ypres, 43

Haig, Field Marshal, begins offensive on Flanders front, 46

Hamel, capture of, by Australians, 321

Hangard, fighting around, 296

Havrincourt, capture of, by British, 60

Hedjaz, revolt in, 240-242

Hertling, Count von, address before Reichstag, 106

Hill 204, capture of, by Americans, 401

Hill 304, capture of, by French, 28

Hindenburg line, British offensive against, 58

Hoover, Herbert C., 125

Horne, General Sir Henry, commanding British first army, 273

Horvath, General, 447

House, Edward M., at Allied War Conference, 77

Humbert, General, commanding French third army, 274

Hutier, General von, 321

Indian scouts, with Pershing on the Marne, 331

Industries, closing of, to conserve coal, 131

"Infiltration" of troops, employment of, 401

Inter-Allied Naval Council, 81

Intrepid, sunk to block the harbor of Zeebrugge, 470

Iphigenia, sunk to block the harbor of Zeebrugge, 470

Irkutsk, capture of, by Allies, 446

Italian offensive, 456

Italian offensive in August, 1917, 188

Italian successes, 192

Italy, American troops in, 346

Italy, Austrian retreat in, 458

Italy, Austro-German offensive in, 200-213

Italy, revival of military strength, 450

Japan, action of, in Siberia, 432

Jerusalem, capture of, 223-232

Kaiser William on Ukraine peace, 339

Kaledine, General, 139

Kato, Admiral, Japan, proclamation of, 438

Kattegat, British naval raid on, 470

Kawachi, Japanese battleship, sinking of, 468

Kerensky, beginning of downfall, 137

Kerensky, efforts to revive Russian army, 134

Kerensky, flight from Petrograd, 146

Keyes, Vice Admiral, commanding raids at Zeebrugge and Ostend, 470

Kornilov, General, rebellion against Soviets, 435

Kornilov, General, rebellion of, 137

Kornilov, General, speech of, 136

Lake Moor, sinking of, 463

Lancashire troops, performances of, 58

Langemarck, capture of, by Allies, 19

Lansdowne, Marquis of, efforts toward peace, 101

Lenine, declaration on peace, 154

Lenine, Nikolai, 148-155

Lens, British success at, 13

Lens, Canadian successes at, 32

Lens, result of German bombardment of, 18

Liberty Loan, second, 112-113

Liggett, General Hunter, commands first army corps, 400

Liquid fire, employment of, against Americans, 350

Livonia, German attitude toward, 439

Loos, British bombardment of, 17

Lorraine, American operations in, 347

Lorraine, American successes in, 351

Lorraine front, occupation of, by Americans, 358

Ludendorff, General, plans new German offensive, 305

Lunéville, American operations around, 352

Lys region, fighting in, 297

McAdoo, Wm. G., appointed Director General of Railroads, 131

Machine gunners, German, in Epieds Forest, 411

Mainz, British air raids upon, 481

Malmaison Plateau, capture of, by French, 48

Marine Corps, exploits of, 395

Marines, American, success in Belleau Wood, 384

Marne, American sortie across, 391

Marne, crossing of, by Americans, 407

Marne, crossing of, by Germans, 327, 402

Marne, French counterattack on, 406

Marne, German advance along, 310

Marne, new battle of the, 325

Marne, recrossing of, by Germans, 404

Marne salient, German strength in, 333

Marwitz, General von der, commanding German second army, 273

Massed formation, employment of, by Germans, 65

Matz, French retreat along, 313

Menin, British air raids upon, 480

Messines Ridge, attempts of Germans to capture, 293

Meuse, French lines on, 30

Milne, General G. F., commanding British troops in the Balkans, 245-246

Minnetonka, steamship, sinking of, 462

Mirbach, General Count von, assassination of, 442

Moldavia, transport, sinking of, 464

Montdidier, French successes at, 1918, 314

Montdidier, German successes around, in June, 1918, 312

Montdidier, operations around, in March, 1918, 283

Monte di Val Bella, capture of, 458

Monte Santo, capture of, 187

Mont Kemmel, assault against, by Germans, 300

Moreuil, operations around, 287

Murman coast, American forces on, 441

Murman Peninsula, German desire to seize, 439

National army, training of, 116

Naval Conference, Inter-Allied, 81

Naval engagements, 468

Navy, expansion of, 119

Neutral countries and food exports, 128

Neutral shipping, submarine destruction of, 463

Neutral vessels in American ports, 128

Neuve Église, capture of, by Germans, 294

Nicholas II, murder of, 447

Nieuport sector, artillery operations in, 75

Norwegian marine, losses of, by submarines, 463

O. B. Jennings, sinking of, 466

Oise, operations along, 308

Ostend Harbor, blocking of, 473

Ourcq, French and American successes along, 332

Palestine, campaign in, 214-238

Passchendaele-Gheluvelt Ridge, capture of, by British, 43

Peace efforts of Pope Benedict, 97

Peace move of Bolsheviki, 153

Peace negotiations of Bolsheviki and Germany, 156, 157

Péronne, operations around, in March offensive, 278

Pershing, General John J., announces Americans in the trenches, 85

Pershing, General, message of, to War Department, 368, 369

Pershing, General, offers American troops to Foch, 346

Pershing, General, report of, on Belleau Wood, 387

Pershing, General, report of, on Cantigny, 376

Pétain, General, reputation of, 284

Pétain, General, receives American reenforcements, 327

Pétain, General, troops of, in Picardy, 324

Petrograd Council, reaction in, 139

Piave, Italian halt at, 208, 209

Picardy battle, American operations in, 372

Poison gas, employment of, by British, 35

Pope Benedict, efforts at peace, 97

Pope Benedict, reply of Wilson to, 99

Portuguese troops, performances of, 291

President Grant, sinking of, 463

President Lincoln, sinking of, 464

Prices, increase in, 125

Prisoners, Allied, in great German offensive, 277

Prussian Guards, defeat of, by Americans, 412

Railroads, American condition of, 133

Railway construction, American, in France, 344

Rawlinson, General, praises American engineers, 369

Remières Wood, capture of, by Americans, 361

Rheims, attacks of Germans around, 57

Rheims, German attack upon, 317

Roye, capture of, 280

Rumania, conditions in, 250-252

Russia, German advance in, 436

Russia, German peace with, 420

Russia, National Conference in, 135

Russia, refusal of Central Powers to withdraw from, 419

Russia, result of collapse of, on German forces, 76

Russian constituent assembly, failure of, 168

Russian counter-revolution, attempt at, 165-168

Russian Grand Dukes, arrest of, 137

Russian hatred of Germans, 443

Russian peace terms with Germany, 424

Russian peace treaty, divisions of, 426

Russian peace treaty, ratification of, 428

Russian state documents, secret, publication of, 158

Russian surrender to Germany, 423

Russian territory taken by Germans, 426

Saarbrücken, British air raids on, 50

St. Gobain Forest, German assault against, 76

St. Mihiel salient, American operations in, 349

San Diego, American cruiser, sinking of, 468

Sarrail, General, commanding Allied troops in the Balkans, 245, 246

Scherpenberg, assaults of Germans against, 302

Second Liberty Loan, 112, 113

Seicheprey, American losses at, 362

Seicheprey, attack on Americans at, 359

Seicheprey region, fighting in, 318

Sergy, capture of, by Americans, 413

Sergy, fighting around, 337

Seringes, capture of, by Americans, 414

Shipping Board, performances of, 122

Shipping, investigation of, 121

Siberia, American attitude to Japanese intervention in, 433

Siberia, American participation in, 449

Siberian Government proclaimed, 447

Skoropadsky, Hetman of Ukrainia, 436

Sneezing powder, use of, by Germans, 305

Soissons, French successes around, 322

Soissons, operations around, 311

Soissons-Rheims salient, Allied progress in, 332

Somme, British retreat from, 285

Sophia, Queen of Greece, intrigues of, 248

Soviets, President Wilson's message to, 428

Spanish losses at sea, 462

Stuttgart, British air raids on, 481

Submarine blockade, results of, 460

Submarines destroyed by U. S. naval vessels, 457

Submarines, German operations of, 253-256

Supreme war council, 81

"Tanks," employment of, by British, 59

Tanks, first employment of, by Germans, 298

Thetis, sunk to block the harbor of Zeebrugge, 470

Third French army, operations of, 274

Titles, abolition of, in Russia, 169

Tonale region, operations in, 456

Torcy, capture of, by Americans, 382

Toul sector, American operations in, 353, 354

Trench fighting, first American experience in, 88

Trentino, operations along, 191

Trèves, bombing of, by British airplanes, 477

Trotzky, Leon, beginning of power, 141, 142

Trotzky, Leon, career of, 152

Trotzky, Leon, denunciation of German imperialism, 419

Trugny, American struggle for, 409

Tuscania, sinking of, 461

Udine, capture of, by Austrians, 206

Ukraine, agitation for separate government, 140

Ukraine, independence of, 161

Ukrainia, conditions in, 185

Ukrainia, German policy in, 418

Ukrainia, invasion of, by Germans, 429

Ukrainia, martial law in, 435

United States, dependence on, by Allies, 77

United States military railroad in France, 344

Vaux, capture of, by Americans, 319, 397

Vaux, German counterattacks at, 398

Verdun, French gains at, 25

Verdun, German assaults upon, 22, 23

Verdun, German attacks northwest of, 52

Villers-Bretonneux, capture of, by British, 299

Villers-Cotterets Wood, French successes in, 319

Vindictive, in raids at Zeebrugge and Ostend, 473

Vladivostok, occupation of, by Czecho-Slovaks, 446

War aims of Allies, restatement of, 102

War appropriations by Congress, 111

War Department performances, 119

Weather conditions on western front, 72

Westhoek Ridge, German assaults upon, 15

Wheat requirements of Allies, 127

Wien, Austrian battleship, sinking of, 468

Wilson, President, address of, April, 1918, 349

Wilson, President, address to Congress on peace, 103

Wilson, President, message to Russian Soviets, 428

Wilson, President, reply to Pope Benedict, 99

Wolf, German cruiser, vessels destroyed by, 468

Xivray, German attack upon, 363

Ypres, bombardment of, by Germans, 301

Ypres, British attack around, 35

Ypres, British retirement from, 297

Ypres-Commines Canal, German attacks on, 12

Ypres-Menin road, British lose ground on, 37

Ypres-Menin road, operations around, 29

Zeebrugge Harbor, blocking of, 470-473

The Western Battle Field, Showing the International Frontiers, the Important Railways, the Position of the Lines at the Culmination of Important Campaigns, and the Battle Front as it Existed in September, 1918.

The Battle Fronts of the Great War—as the Lines Were Drawn in Belgium, France, the Balkans, Italy, Palestine, and Mesopotamia, September, 1918. The Russian Front Had Completely Disappeared.

The Western Front from Nancy to Calais.

Transcriber's notes: Obvious printer's errors have been silently corrected. Hyphenation and accentuation have been standardised, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been maintained. Other corrections are listed below:

The corrected word is given between brackets.

Page 89: "Scarcely have they touched the soil of this putrified [putrefied] Europe when they already are forcing their way into Germany."

Page 112: "Included in the work of Congress was final agreement on a war revenue measure after six months of debate (with wide divergence of taxation plans between the House and Senate) estimated to produce $2,534,870 [$2,534,870,000], of which $851,000,000 was to be levied on incomes, and $1,000,000,000 on excess profits."

Page 209: "But compared with their losses of the two preceeding [preceding] weeks, the present losses were slight and showed a decided revival of the Italian resistance and a slowing up of the Austro-German advance."

Page 216: "On the morning of October 27, 1917, the Turks made a strong reconnoissance toward Karm from the direction of Kauwukah, two regiments of calvary [cavalry] and two or three thousand infantry, with guns, being employed."

Page 226: "Between the foot of the spur of the main range and the costal [coastal] plain is the low range known as the Shephelah."

Page 237: "Farther south a post at the village of Obeid was attacked by 700 of the enemy, who surrounded it and fired 400 shells into the monastery, but the Middlesex men, who were the garrison of the post, held out, their casualities [casualties] being trifling."

Page 308: "In the Rheims sector the crown prince's forces occupied the northern parts of La Neuvillete [Neuvillette] and Betheny, a mile nearer to Rheims on the northwest and northeast."

Page 378: "Flashes and war-splitting [ear-splitting] crashes came from batteries put in position just far enough off the roads to avoid the traffic."

Page 448: "The cooperators, however, realize the danger from German economic cont [control]