Chapter 4
The War at Close Quarters
SIR JOHN FRENCH'S OWN STORY 619
Famous Dispatches of the British Commander in Chief to Lord Kitchener
STORY OF THE "EYE WITNESS" 650
By Col. E.D. Swinton of the Intelligence Department of the British General Staff
THE DAWN OF A NEW DAY (Poem) 678
By Edward Neville Vose
THE GERMAN ENTRY INTO BRUSSELS (With Map) 679
By John Boon
THE FALL OF ANTWERP 682
By a Correspondent of The London Daily Chronicle
AS THE FRENCH FELL BACK ON PARIS 689
By G. H. Perris
THE RETREAT TO PARIS 691
By Philip Gibbs
A ZOUAVE'S STORY 704
By Philip Gibbs
WHEN WAR BURST ON ARRAS 707
By a Special Correspondent
THE BATTLES IN BELGIUM (With Map) 711
By The Associated Press
SEEKING WOUNDED ON BATTLE FRONT 714
By Philip Gibbs
AT THE KAISER'S HEADQUARTERS 718
By Cyril Brown of The New York Times
HOW THE BELGIANS FIGHT 725
By a Correspondent of The London Daily News
A VISIT TO THE FIRING LINE IN FRANCE 727
By a Correspondent of The New York Times
UNBURIED DEAD STREW LORRAINE (With Map) 729
By Philip Gibbs
ALONG THE GERMAN LINES NEAR METZ 731
By The Associated Press
THE SLAUGHTER IN ALSACE 736
By John H. Cox
RENNENKAMPF ON THE RUSSIAN BORDER 738
By a Correspondent of The London Daily Chronicle
THE FIRST FIGHT AT LODZ (With Map) 740
By Perceval Gibbon
THE FIRST INVASION OF SERBIA (With Map) 742
By a Correspondent of The London Standard
THE ATTACK ON TSING-TAU 745
By Jefferson Jones
THE GERMAN ATTACK ON TAHITI 748
As Told by Miss Geni La France, an Eyewitness
THE BLOODLESS CAPTURE OF GERMAN SAMOA 749
By Malcolm Ross, F.R.G.S.
HOW THE CRESSY SANK 752
By Edgar Rowan
GERMAN STORY OF THE HELIGOLAND FIGHT 754
By a Special Correspondent of The New York Times
THE SINKING OF THE CRESSY AND THE HOGUE 755
By the Senior Surviving Officers, Commander Bertram W.L. Nicholson and
Commander Reginald A. Norton
THE SINKING OF THE HAWKE 757
By a Correspondent of The London Daily Chronicle
THE EMDEN'S LAST FIGHT 758
By the Cable Operator at Cocos Islands
CROWDS SEE THE NIGER SINK 760
By a Correspondent of The London Daily Chronicle
LIEUTENANT WEDDIGEN'S OWN STORY 762
By Herbert B. Swope and Capt. Lieut. Otto Weddigen
THE SOLILOQUY OF AN OLD SOLDIER (Poem) 764
By O.C.A. Child
THE EFFECTS OF WAR IN FOUR COUNTRIES 765
By Irvin S. Cobb
HOW PARIS DROPPED GAYETY 767
By Anne Rittenhouse
PARIS IN OCTOBER 770
From The London Times
FRANCE AND ENGLAND AS SEEN IN WAR TIME 772
Interview with F. Hopkinson Smith
THE HELPLESS VICTIMS 776
By Mrs. Nina Larrey Duryee
A NEW RUSSIA MEETS GERMANY 777
By Perceval Gibbon
BELGIAN CITIES GERMANIZED 780
By Cyril Brown of The New York Times
THE BELGIAN RUIN 786
By J.H. Whitehouse, M.P.
THE WOUNDED SERB 788
From The London Times
SPY ORGANIZATION IN ENGLAND 790
British Home Office Communication
CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR 793
THE MEN OF THE EMDEN (Poem) 816
By Thomas R. Ybarra