For Tuscany, the Crown Jewels and part of the Medici heirlooms; for Modena, a Virgin by Andrea del Sarto and manuscripts; for Palermo, twelfth century objects made for the Norman Kings; for Naples, ninety-eight manuscripts carried off in 1718; for Belgium, various objects and documents removed in 1794; for Poland, a gold cup of King Ladislas IV., removed in 1772; and for Czecho-Slovakia, various documents and historical manuscripts removed from the Royal Castle of Prague. INDEX A Air Raids, at night, III, 229-241; British, II, 249; on England, I, 375-388 Albert, King of Belgium, I, 114-115; encourages soldiers, I, 51-53 Albert, town of, III, 164 _Alcedo_ torpedoed, II, 374-378 Alderson, General, at Second Ypres, I, 258 Aleppo, importance as railway junction, II, 180; starting point for caravans, II, 178 Alien enemies, rules concerning, II, 239-243 Allenby, General, at Gommecourt, II. 75; commands in Palestine, II, 344-368; in Allied retreat, I, 65-67 Allied Armies, in Macedonia, III, 170; positions in Battle of the Marne, I, 78, 81, 90-93 Alsace, operations in, I, 84 America Drawn Into War, II, 205-225; bad faith of Germans, II, 210; sinking of _Lusitania_, II, 210; stirred by invasion of Belgium, II, 208; _Sussex_, II, 212 America's Break with Germany, relations severed, II, 197-198; reasons for, II, 194-204 America's Declaration of Existence of War, II, 224-225 American Expeditionary Forces, a corps, III, 242-243; a division, III, 242; airplanes, III, 248; artillery supply, III, 247; artillery training camp, III, 202; attack in the Soissonais, III, 224; aviators, III, 269; communication and supply, III, 244-246; construction work, III, 244; Engineer Corps, III, 216, 269; fight through Meuse-Argonne sector, III, 256-267; First and Second in Soissons drive, III, 252; First Army is organized, III, 254; first days on the firing line, III, 200-209; First Division at Montdidier, III, 250; First Division takes Cantigny, III, 250; Forty-second Division east of Rheims, III, 251; Forty-second and Thirty-second at Cierges, III, 253; from the Marne to the Aisne, III, 210-228; German supply line cut, III, 266; infantry training, III, 243; line on date of armistice, III, 267; losses of, III, 268; Medical Corps, III, 268; Ordnance Department, III, 269; organization of, III, 242-248; plans for movement against St. Mihiel salient, III, 254; ports employed, III, 245; quality of soldiers, III, 228; Quartermaster's Department, III, 269; Second and Thirty-sixth with French, III, 261-262; Second Army organized, III, 263; Second Corps organized on British front, III, 251; Second Division takes Bouresches, Belleau Wood and Vaux, III, 250-251; Service of Supply, III, 245-247, 268; Signal Corps, III, 269; soldiers in Italy, III, 268; soldiers in Russia, III, 268; take St. Mihiel salient, III, 254-257;