CHAPTER XXII. THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN The Advance on Cracow--Van Hindenburg Strikes at Warsaw--German Barbarism--The War in Galicia--The Fall of Przemysl--Russia's Ammunition Fails--The Russian Retreat--The Fall of Warsaw--Czernowitz CHAPTER XXIII. HOW THE BALKANS DECIDED Ferdinand of Bulgaria Insists Upon Joining Germany--Dramatic Scene in the King's Palace--The Die is Cast--Bulgaria Succumbs to Seductions of Potsdam Gang--Greece Mobilizes--French and British Troops at Saloniki--Serbia Over-run--Roumania's Disastrous Venture in the Arena of Mars CHAPTER XXIV. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA British Army Threatening Bagdad Besieged in Kut-el-Amara--After Heroic Defense General Townshend Surrenders After 143 Days of Siege--New British Expedition Recaptures Kut--Troops Push on up the Tigris--Fall of Bagdad, the Magnificent CHAPTER XXV. CANADA'S PART IN THE GREAT WAR By COL. GEORGE G. NASMITH, C. M. G. Enthusiastic Response to the Call to Action--Valcartier Camp a Splendid Example of the Driving Power of Sir Sam Hughes--Thirty-three Liners Cross the Atlantic with First Contingent of Men and Equipment--Largest Convoy Ever Gathered Together--At the Front with the Princess Pat's--Red Cross--Financial Aid--Half a Million Soldiers Overseas--Mons, the Last Stronghold of the Enemy, Won by the Men from Canada--A Record of Glory CHAPTER XXVI. IMMORTAL VERDUN Grave of the Military Reputations of Von Falkenhayn and the Crown Prince--Hindenburg's Warning--Why the Germans Made the Disastrous Attempt to Capture the Great Fortress--Heroic France Reveals Itself to the World--"They Shall Not Pass"--Nivelle's Glorious Stand on Dead Man Hill--Lord Northcliffe's Description--A Defense Unsurpassed in the History of France CHAPTER XXVII. MURDERS AND MARTYRS The Case of Edith Cavell--Nurse Who Befriended the Helpless, Dies at the Hands of the Germans--Captain Fryatt's Martyrdom--How Germany Sowed the Seeds of Disaster CHAPTER XXVIII. THE SECOND BATTLE OF YPRES The Canadians in Action--Undismayed by the New Weapon of the Enemy--Holding the Line Against Terrific Odds--Men from the Dominion Fight Like Veterans CHAPTER XXIX. ZEPPELIN RAIDS ON FRANCE AND ENGLAND First Zeppelin Attack Kills Twenty-eight and Injures Forty-four--Part of Germany's Policy of Frightfulness--Raids by German Airplanes on Unfortified Towns--Killing of Non-Combatants--The British Lion Awakes--Anti-Aircraft Precautions and Protections--Policy of Terrorism Fails CHAPTER XXX. RED REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA Rasputin, the Mystic--The Cry for Bread--Rise of the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates--Rioting in Petrograd--The Threatening Cloud of Disaster--Moderate Policy of the Duma Fails--The Fatal Easter Week of 1917--Abdication of the Czar--Last Tragic Moments of the Autocrat of All the Russias--Grand Duke Issues Declaration Ending Power of Romanovs in Russia--Release of Siberian Revolutionists--Free Russia