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 IV 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 The following stories have been selected for VOLUME IV by the Board of Editors, according to the plan outlined in "Introductory" to Volume I for collecting from all sources the "Best Stories of the War." This group includes personal experiences of Soldiers at the front, Submarine Officers, Aviators, Prisoners, Ambulance Drivers, Red Cross Nurses, Priests, Spies, and American Eye-Witnesses. They have been collected from twenty-eight of the most authentic sources in Europe and America and include 134 adventures and episodes. Full credit is given in every instance to the original source. VOLUME IV--TWENTY-EIGHT STORY-TELLERS--134 EPISODES "WHEN THE PRUSSIANS CAME TO POLAND"--A TRAGEDY 1 EXPERIENCES OF AN AMERICAN WOMAN DURING THE GERMAN INVASION Told by Madame Laura de Gozdawa Turczynowicz (Permission of G. P. Putnam's Sons) MY EXPERIENCES WITH SPIES IN THE GREAT WAR 16 VISITING WITH SPIES IN AMERICA, NORWAY, SWEDEN, DENMARK AND GERMANY Told by Bernhart Paul Hoist (Permission of Hoist Publishing Company, Boone, Iowa) "THE ADVENTURE OF THE U-202"--THE KAISER'S ARMADA 40 HUNTING THE SEAS ON A GERMAN SUBMARINE Told by Baron Spiegel Von Und Zu Peckelsheim, Captain Lieutenant Commander of the U-202 (Permission of The Century Company) "PASSED BY THE CENSOR"--TRUE STORIES FROM THE FIELDS OF BATTLE 55 EXPERIENCES OF AN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER MAN IN FRANCE Told by Wythe Williams, Correspondent of the "New York Times" (Permission of E. P. Dutton and Company) "PRIESTS IN THE FIRING LINE"--THE CROSS AND CRUCIFIX 72 A REVEREND FATHER IN THE FRENCH ARMY Told by Réné Gaell (Permission of Longmans, Green and Company) STORIES OF AN AMERICAN WOMAN--SEEN WITH HER OWN EYES 84 "JOURNAL OF SMALL THINGS" Told by Helen Mackay (Permission of Duffield and Company) "PRISONER OF WAR"--SOLDIER'S TALES OF THE ARMY 94 FROM THE BATTLEFIELD TO THE CAMP Told by André Ward (Permission of J. B. Lippincott Company) WAR SCENES I SHALL NEVER FORGET 100 Told by Carita Spencer (Permission of Carita Spencer, of New York) "WAR LETTERS FROM FRANCE"--THE HEARTS OF HEROES 123 COLLECTED FROM THE SOLDIERS Told by A. De Lapradelle and Frederic R. Coudert (Permission of A. Appleton and Company)