Subtle Socialist Gospel Preached by Enemy Plays Havoc with Guileless Italians--Sudden Onslaught of Germans Drives Cadorna’s Men from Heights--The Spectacular Retreat that Dismayed the World--Glorious Stand of the Italians on the Piave--Rise of Diaz 214 ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME IV PAGE ON VIMY RIDGE, WHERE CANADA WON LAURELS _Frontispiece_ FIELD-MARSHAL EARL KITCHENER 2 FIELD-MARSHAL SIR JOHN D. FRENCH 2 THE GALLANT DEFENSE OF “HILL 60” 14 “TIME’S UP! OVER YOU GO” 22 FORWARD WITH THE TANKS AGAINST BAPAUME 26 THE RED RUINS OF YPRES 34 A FIGHT IN A CLOUD OF GAS 42 NURSE EDITH CAVELL 46 CAPTAIN CHARLES A. FRYATT 46 GUARDING PARIS FROM THE HUN 58 THE WOMEN’S “BATTALION OF DEATH” IN NATIONAL DANCE 82 LANDING AT VLADIVOSTOK 94 THE CARGO SUBMARINE “DEUTSCHLAND” 130 A “SMOKE CURTAIN” VIEWED FROM BEHIND THE SCENES 182 “HAIL COLUMBIA” 186 THREE MESSENGERS OF DESTRUCTION FOR TRIESTE 214 THE WORLD WAR CHAPTER I CANADA’S PART IN THE GREAT WAR BY COL. GEO. G. NASMITH, C. M. G., TORONTO When, in August, 1914, war burst suddenly upon a peaceful world like distant thunder in a cloudless summer sky, Canada, like the rest of the British Empire, was profoundly startled. She had been a peace-loving, non-military nation, satisfied to develop her great natural resources, and live in harmony with her neighbors; taking little interest in European affairs, Canadians, in fact, were a typical colonial people, with little knowledge even of the strength of the ties that linked them to the British Empire. Upon declaration of war by Great Britain Canada immediately sprang to arms. The love of country and empire which had been no obvious thing burst forth in a patriotic fervor as deep as it was spontaneous and genuine. The call to action was answered with an enthusiasm the like of which had rarely, if ever, been seen in any British colony.