First Major Action by All American Army--Stories to Folks Back Home--Huns Carry Off Captive Women--Hell Has Cut Loose--Major Tells His Story--Enormous Numbers of Guns and Tanks--Over the Top at 5: AM--Texas and Oklahoma Troops Fight in True Ranger Style--Our Colored Boys Win Credit V THE WAR IN THE AIR Air Craft--Liberty Motors and Air Service--The Danger of Aviation--Air Plane's Tail Shot Off--Champions of the Air--Lieut. Lehr's Personal Stories of Air Fighting at the Front--American Aviator Grabs Iron Cross as Souvenir--Eyes of the Army Always Open VI CAUSES OF THE WORLD WAR AND HOW WAR WAS DECLARED VII INVASION OF BELGIUM Belgians Rush to Defense of Their Frontier--Towns Bombarded and Burned --The Defense of Liège--Destruction of Louvain--Fall of Namur--German Proclamation to Inhabitants--Belgian Capital Occupied by the Germans Without Bloodshed--Important Part Played by American Minister Brand Whitlock--March of the Kaiser's Troops Through the City--Belgian Forces Retreat to Antwerp--Dinant and Termonde Fall VIII BRITAIN RAISES AN ARMY Earl Kitchener Appointed Secretary for War--A New Volunteer Army--Expeditionary Force Landed in France--Field Marshal Sir John French in Command--Colonies Rally to Britain's Aid--The Canadian Contingent--Indian Troops Called For--Native Princes Offer Aid IX EARLY BATTLES OF THE WAR Belgian Resistance to the German Advance--The Fighting at Vise, Haelen, Diest, Aerschot and Tirlemont--Mons and Charleroi the First Great Battles of the War--Allies Make a Gallant Stand, but Forced to Retire Across the French Border X GERMAN ADVANCE ON PARIS Allies Withdraw for Ten Days, Disputing Every Inch of Ground with the Kaiser's Troops--Germans Push Their Way Through France in Three Main Columns--Official Reports of the Withdrawing Engagements--Paris Almost in Sight XII BATTLE OF THE MARNE German Plans Suddenly Changed--Direction of Advance Swings to the Southeast When Close to the French Capital--Successful Resistance by the Allies--The Prolonged Encounter at the Marne--Germans Retreat, with Allies in Hot Pursuit for Many Miles XII THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN Slow Mobilization of Troops--Invasion of German and Austrian Territory--Cossacks Lead the Van--Early Successes in East Prussia--"On to Berlin"--Heavy Losses Inflicted on Austrians--German Troops Rushed to the Defense of the Eastern Territory XIII THE AUSTRO-SERVIAN CAMPAIGN Declaration of War by Austria--Bombardment of Belgrade---Servian Capital Removed--Seasoned Soldiers of Servia Give a Good Account of Themselves--Many Indecisive Engagements--Servians in Austrian Territory XIV STORIES FROM THE BATTLEFIELD