E-text prepared by Charlene Taylor, Christine P. Travers, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) and digitized by Google Books Library Project (http://books.google.com/intl/en/googlebooks/library.html) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 29340-h.htm or 29340-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/29340/pg29340-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29340/29340-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive or Google books. See http://www.archive.org/details/storygreatwar01ruhlgoog or http://books.google.com/books?id=PV4PAAAAYAAJ&oe=UTF-8 Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected. Hyphenation and accentuation have been made consistent. All other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been retained. THE STORY OF THE GREAT WAR History of the European War from Official Sources Complete Historical Records of Events to Date, Illustrated with Drawings, Maps, and Photographs Prefaced by What the War Means to America Major General Leonard Wood, U.S.A. Naval Lessons of the War Rear Admiral Austin M. Knight, U.S.N. The World's War Frederick Palmer Theatres of the War's Campaigns Frank H. Simonds The War Correspondent Arthur Ruhl Edited by Francis J. Reynolds Former Reference Librarian of Congress Allen L. Churchill Associate Editor, The New International Encyclopedia Francis Trevelyan Miller Editor in Chieft, Photographic History of the Civil War P. F. Collier & Son Company New York [Illustration: _Kaiser Wilhelm II, German Emperor, inspecting Austro-Hungarian troops on the East Galician front, New Year's Day, 1916. At the Kaiser's left is General Count von Bothmer_] THE STORY OF THE GREAT WAR Champagne . Artois . Grodno Fall of Nish . Caucasus Mesopotamia . Development of Air Strategy . United States and the War VOLUME IV P . F . Collier & Son . New York Copyright 1916 By P. F. Collier & Son CONTENTS PART I.--WAR IN SYRIA AND EGYPT CHAPTER Page I. Renewed Turkish Attempts 9 PART II.--WAR IN THE AIR II. Raids of the Airmen 16 III. Zeppelins Attack London--Battles in the Air 29 IV. Venice Attacked--Other Raids 34 PART III.--THE WESTERN FRONT V. Summary of First Year's Operations 39 VI. Fighting in Artois and the Vosges 46