A few minutes after the Aboukir was struck by a torpedo from the German submarine U-9 early on September 22, 1914, she listed to port at an angle of 45 degrees and the captain sang out from the bridge: "Every man for himself!" The drawing depicts the scene that followed, as described by a survivor. Two-thirds of the crew of 650 were drowned or killed by the explosion. The boats of the cruisers Hogue and Cressy, which were soon after also torpedoed and sunk, are seen coming to the rescue. The total loss was over 1,400 lives.--_Drawn by Charles Dixon, R.I., for The Graphic_.] "_LaFayette, we are here_"--_General Pershing_ THE OFFICIAL STORY OF AMERICAN OPERATIONS IN FRANCE _By_ GENERAL JOHN J. PERSHING _Commander-in-Chief_ WILLIAM DUNSEATH EATON CONTRIBUTING EDITOR _Author "The War in Verse and Prose" "A Soldier of Navarre" etc._ SPECIAL CHAPTERS BY HON. JAMES MARTIN MILLER _Former United States Consul to France Author "Spanish-American War" "Prussian-Japanese War" etc._ DEDICATION To the soldiers and sailors of the United States and Canada; to the men of the armies and navies of nations allied with us; to the splendid courage and devotion of American, French, British and Belgian women, who have endured in silence the pain of losses worse than death, and never faltered in works of mercy for which no thanks can ever pay; to all the agencies of good that have helped save civilization and the world from the most dreadful menace of all time, this volume is dedicated. To the honor of those nations upon whom the laurel of victory has descended. To those who have vouchsafed for us the permanence of the higher ideals of humanity and civilization. To those who have sheltered posterity from the dominance of barbarity, brutality, serfdom, bigotry and degradation. To those who have striven against the Teuton and the Turk that God-given and God-ordained freedom may triumph. To those noble stoics of Belgium, of France, of Serbia, of Roumania, of Poland and all other peoples who have felt the mailed fist of the ruthless oppressor; who have looked upon their devastated fields, their dismantled cathedrals, their violated hearth-stones and the desecrated graves of their kindred, and that peace, tranquillity, contentment and prosperity may again be restored to them in bounteous meed. To those heroes who by their valor, their vigor and their inspired devotion to right and patriotism have so nobly fought and conquered. To those martyrs whom God in his immutable manifestations has chosen for the ultimate sacrifice of their lives upon the altar of freedom and humanity's cause. In honor to these who have attained this glorious victory. In honor to the commingling flags of the allied nations reflecting in their rainbow hues a covenant of everlasting peace in this their hour of triumph, may we all consecrate our purposes and our lives to a brotherhood of mankind, a spirit of broadest humanity and universal peace on earth. --_L.J. Robinson_.