Chapter 9

LXXXII. First Moves of Turkey 493

LXXXIII. The First Blow Against the Allies 501

LXXXIV. British Campaign in Mesopotamia 506

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

French Siege Gun at Arras _Frontispiece_

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Bridge Destroyed by the Belgians at Liege 14

General Joffre 78

Germans Refortifying Antwerp 158

Emden Aground After the Sydney's Victory 222

Wreck of the Blücher in the North Sea Battle 254

Serbian Infantrymen on Their Way to the Front 302

General von Hindenburg 382

Gerdauen, East Prussia, Destroyed in Russian Invasion 478

LIST OF MAPS

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Peace Distribution of Army Corps and Naval Stations of Belligerent Powers (_Colored Map_) _Front Insert_

France, Pictorial Map of 11

Belgium, Beginning of German Invasion of 17

Alsace-Lorraine, French Invasion of 51

Battle of Mons and Retreat of Allied Armies 71

Battle of the Marne--Beginning on September 5, 1914 89

Battle of the Marne--Situation on September 9, 1914 98

Battle of the Marne--End of German Retreat and the Intrenched Line on the Aisne River 107

Liege Fort, German Attack of 162

Antwerp, Siege and Fall of 162

Flanders, Battle Front in 173

German and English Naval Positions 199

War in the East--Relation of the Eastern Countries to Germany 263

The Balkans, Pictorial Map of 293

Serbian and Austrian Invasions 296

Russia, Pictorial Map of 364

Galicia, Russian Invasion of 367

Battle of Tannenberg 440