PAGE INTRODUCTION 3 I. THE SUPREME CRIME AGAINST CIVILIZATION: THE TRAGIC DESTRUCTION OF THE LUSITANIA 9 II. THE HEROES OF THE LUSITANIA AND THEIR HEROISM 22 III. SOUL-STIRRING STORIES OF SURVIVORS OF THE LUSITANIA 34 IV. A CANADIAN’S ACCOUNT OF THE LUSITANIA HORROR 50 V. THE PLOT AGAINST THE RESCUE SHIPS 55 VI. BRITISH JURY FINDS KAISER A MURDERER 61 VII. THE WORLD-WIDE INDICTMENT OF GERMANY FOR THE LUSITANIA ATROCITY 69 VIII. AMERICA’S PROTEST AGAINST UNCIVILIZED WARFARE 81 IX. THE GERMAN DEFENSE FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF THE LUSITANIA 91 X. SWIFT REVERSAL TO BARBARISM 101 By Vance Thompson, American Author and Journalist. XI. BELGIUM’S BITTER NEED 112 By Sir Gilbert Parker, M.P., British Novelist. XII. JAMES BRYCE’S REPORT ON SYSTEMATIC MASSACRE IN BELGIUM 121 XIII. A BELGIAN BOY’S STORY OF THE RUIN OF AERSCHOT 137 XIV. THE UNSPEAKABLE ATROCITIES OF “CIVILIZED WARFARE” 144 XV. DESTROYING THE PRICELESS MONUMENTS OF CIVILIZATION 159 XVI. WANTON DESTRUCTION OF THE BEAUTIFUL CATHEDRAL OF RHEIMS 169 XVII. CANADIANS’ GLORIOUS FEAT AT LANGEMARCK 177 XVIII. PITIFUL FLIGHT OF A MILLION WOMEN 195 By Philip Gibbs, English Author and Journalist. XIX. FACING DEATH IN THE TRENCHES 207 XX. A VIVID PICTURE OF WAR 221 XXI. HARROWING SCENES ALONG THE BATTLE LINES 228 XXII. WHAT THE MEN IN THE TRENCHES WRITE HOME 234 XXIII. BOMBARDING UNDEFENDED CITIES 240 XXIV. GERMANY’S FATAL WAR ZONE 246 XXV. MULTITUDINOUS TRAGEDIES AT SEA 251 XXVI. HOW “NEUTRAL” WATERS ARE VIOLATED 255 XXVII. THE TERRIBLE DISTRESS OF POLAND 259 XXVIII. THE GHASTLY HAVOC WROUGHT BY THE AIR-DEMONS 267 XXIX. THE DEADLY SUBMARINE AND ITS STEALTHY DESTRUCTION 273 XXX. THE TERRIBLE WORK OF ARTILLERY IN WAR 280 XXXI. WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER BY POISONOUS GASES 286 XXXII. “USAGES OF WAR ON LAND”: THE OFFICIAL GERMAN MANUAL 294 XXXIII. THE SACRIFICE OF THE HORSE IN WARFARE 299 XXXIV. SCOURGES THAT FOLLOW IN THE WAKE OF BATTLE 303 XXXV. WAR’S REPAIR SHOP: CARING FOR THE WOUNDED 308 XXXVI.