TRUE STORIES OF THE GREAT WAR TRUE STORIES OF THE GREAT WAR TALES OF ADVENTURE--HEROIC DEEDS--EXPLOITS TOLD BY THE SOLDIERS, OFFICERS, NURSES, DIPLOMATS, EYE WITNESSES _Collected in Six Volumes From Official and Authoritative Sources_ (_See Introductory to Volume I_) VOLUME II Editor-in-Chief FRANCIS TREVELYAN MILLER (Litt. D., LL.D.) Editor of The Search-Light Library 1917 REVIEW OF REVIEWS COMPANY NEW YORK Copyright, 1917, by REVIEW OF REVIEWS COMPANY CONTENTS This collection of stories for VOLUME II has been selected by the Board of Editors, according to the plan outlined in "Introductory" to Volume I for preserving the "Best Stories of the War" from the most authentic sources in Europe and America. These pages record 144 personal adventures and episodes told by twenty-four Diplomatists, Attachées, Aviators, Naval Officers, French Mothers, German Spies, Soldiers and Eye-Witnesses. Full credit is given in every instance to the original source. VOLUME II--TWENTY-FOUR STORY-TELLERS--144 EPISODES "BEHIND THE SCENES IN WARRING GERMANY" 1 Told by Edward Lyell Fox (Permission of Robert M. McBride and Company) THE "EMDEN"--AN EPIC OF THE GREAT WAR 24 EXPERIENCES ABOARD A GALLANT LITTLE FIGHTING SHIP Told by Kapitanleutnant Hellmuth Von Mücke (Permission of Ritter and Company) "THE WAY OF THE CROSS"--A TRAGEDY OF THE RUSSIANS 45 THE MILLIONS WHO HAVE BECOME BEGGARS Told by V. Doroshevitch (Permission of G. P. Putnam's Sons) THE NOTEBOOK OF AN ATTACHÉ IN THE EMBASSY AT PARIS 61 A DISPATCH-BEARER IN THE AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC SERVICE Told by Eric Fisher Wood (Permission of The Century Company) 'NEATH VERDUN--BEHIND THE CROWN PRINCE'S ARMY 79 Told by Lieutenant Maurice Genevoix (Permission of Frederick A. Stokes Company) ON THE ANZAC TRAIL--WITH THE FIGHTING AUSTRALASIANS 101 ADVENTURES OF A NEW ZEALAND SAPPER Told by "Anzac" (Name Suppressed) (Permission of J. B. Lippincott Company) WITH BOTHA'S ARMY IN GERMAN SOUTHWEST AFRICA 121 ON THE ROAD TO CAPETOWN Told by J. P. Kay Robinson (Permission of E. P. Dutton and Company) LAST WORDS OF A "SOLDIER AND DRAMATIST" 140 LETTERS OF HAROLD CHAPIN (Permission of John Lane Company) THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE--PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF AN AMERICAN WAR CORRESPONDENT 158 Told by Stanley Washburn (Permission of Doubleday, Page and Company) A FRENCH MOTHER IN WAR TIME 170 BEING THE JOURNAL OF MADAME EDOUARD DRUMONT Translated by Grace E. Bevir (Permission of Longmans, Green and Company) "THE FALL OF TSINGTAU"--THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST 186 WITH THE JAPANESE IN THE ORIENT Told by Jefferson Jones (Permission of Houghton, Mifflin and Company)