"_Qu'est-ce que vous avez fait pour mériter tout cela, mon ami?_" What countless thousands of them have done, all along those lines--Englishmen and Frenchmen, Scotchmen and Irishmen, Indians, Australians, Canadians--hearts and souls and bodies offered up magnificently and valiantly sacrificed for the greatest Cause for which humanity has ever fought! Jacquemin brought them bread to the fighting line; and that great fighting line, by its efforts, is giving bread for ever to the world.... (Hundreds of these wonderful letters, revealing the great soul of this American woman, have been gathered into her book which forms one of the most beautiful insights into the "soul of the war."--EDITOR.) FOOTNOTE: [3] In speaking of the death of Comte Henry Dadvisard. "A GERMAN DESERTER'S WAR EXPERIENCE"--HIS ESCAPE "_The Inside Story of the German Army_" _Told by--(His Name Must Be Witheld To Save the Lives of His Relatives and Himself)_ This narrative is without doubt the greatest story yet told by a German soldier. It is a startling confession of the inward feelings of a young German miner in the Kaiser's ranks. Escaping to America after serving fourteen months, he first told his story to the _New Yorker Volkszeitung_, the principal organ of the German socialists in the United States. Believing that all the American people should know the truth, his experiences have been translated by J. Koettgen and published in book form by _B. W. Huebsch_, of New York. His stories are of historical value because he tells how he marched into Belgium with the first German army of invasion; the crossing of the Meuse; the Battle of the Marne. He also tells the first German story of the rout and flight of the Teutonic forces from the Marne--and his desertion from the "hell" within the German army. In these pages we can give but ten selected glimpses of the several hundred stories and scenes which he so graphically describes. [4] I--STORY OF THE MARCH INTO BELGIUM At the end of July, 1914, our garrison at Koblenz was feverishly agitated. Part of our men were seized by an indescribable enthusiasm, others became subject to a feeling of great depression. The declaration of war was in the air. I belonged to those who were depressed. For I was doing my second year of military service and was to leave the barracks in six weeks' time. Instead of the long wished-for return home war was facing me....