Emden Aground After the Sydney's Victory 222 Wreck of the Bluecher in the North Sea Battle 254 Serbian Infantrymen on Their Way to the Front 302 General von Hindenburg 382 Gerdauen, East Prussia, Destroyed in Russian Invasion 478 LIST OF MAPS Page Peace Distribution of Army Corps and Naval Stations of Belligerent Powers (_Colored Map_) _Front Insert_ France, Pictorial Map of 11 Belgium, Beginning of German Invasion of 17 Alsace-Lorraine, French Invasion of 51 Battle of Mons and Retreat of Allied Armies 71 Battle of the Marne--Beginning on September 5, 1914 89 Battle of the Marne--Situation on September 9, 1914 98 Battle of the Marne--End of German Retreat and the Intrenched Line on the Aisne River 107 Liege Fort, German Attack of 162 Antwerp, Siege and Fall of 162 Flanders, Battle Front in 173 German and English Naval Positions 199 War in the East--Relation of the Eastern Countries to Germany 263 The Balkans, Pictorial Map of 293 Serbian and Austrian Invasions 296 Russia, Pictorial Map of 364 Galicia, Russian Invasion of 367 Battle of Tannenberg 440 [Illustration: Peace Distribution of Army Corps and Naval Stations of Belligerent Powers.] PART I--GREAT BATTLES OF THE WESTERN ARMIES CHAPTER I ATTACK ON BELGIUM The first great campaign on the western battle grounds in the European War began on August 4, 1914. On this epoch-making day the German army began its invasion of Belgium--with the conquest of France as its ultimate goal. Six mighty armies stood ready for the great invasion. Their estimated total was 1,200,000 men. Supreme over all was the Emperor as War Lord, but Lieutenant General Helmuth von Moltke, chief of the General Staff, was the practical director of military operations. General von Moltke was a nephew of the great strategist of 1870, and his name possibly appealed as of happy augury for repeating the former capture of Paris.