Produced by Marcia Brooks, Ross Cooling and the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Illustration: cover--THE CHILDREN'S STORY OF THE WAR By Sir Edward Parrott, M.A., LL.D.] THE CHILDREN'S STORY OF THE WAR BY SIR EDWARD PARROTT, M.A., LL.D. Author of "Britain Overseas", "The Pageant of English Literature", etc. VOLUME IV. The Story of the Year 1915 TORONTO THOMAS NELSON AND SONS, Ltd. London, Edinburgh, and New York 1916 "_How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod._ "_By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung: There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell, a weeping hermit, there!_" WILLIAM COLLINS [Illustration: The Sinking of the Bluecher--January 24, 1915.] CONTENTS. I. Setting the House in Order 1 II. The Loss of the "Formidable" 17 III. The Battle of the Dogger Bank 23 IV. The Turkish Descent upon Egypt 33 V. Winter Warfare on the Western Front.--I. 44 VI. Winter Warfare on the Western Front.--II. 49 VII. Stories from the Battlefield 58 VIII. The German Success at Soissons 62 IX. Winter Fighting in Champagne, the Argonne, and the Vosges 65 X. The Submarine Blockade begins 77 XI. The Sinking of the "Lusitania" 81 XII. Stories of Submarines 90 XIII. More Stories of Submarine Warfare 97 XIV. Winter Fighting in Poland and East Prussia 105 XV. A Battle of the Middle Ages 113 XVI. The Fall of Przemysl 117 XVII. Stories from Eastern Battlefields 126 XVIII. The Battle of Neuve Chapelle 129 XIX. Soldiers' Stories of Neuve Chapelle 145 XX. The Dardanelles 157 XXI. Ships _versus_ Forts 161 XXII. How we failed at the Narrows 170 XXIII. The Story of Hill 60 177 XXIV. The Poisonous Cloud 188 XXV. The Battle Glory of Canada 193 XXVI. Days of Struggle and Anxiety.--I. 205 XXVII. Days of Struggle and Anxiety.--II. 209 XXVIII. Heroes of the Ypres Salient 217 XXIX.