The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . x 281 Gexeral Paul Pau •. . 286 LouvAiN After the Germax^ Bombardmext 294 The Library of Louvain Before It was Destroyed . . 295 Belgiaxs Diggixg Trenches 309 Siege Gux Used to Reduce Belgiax Forts 313 The Fortress of Dix^ant on the Meuse 318 Malines After the Bombardmex^t 321 Part of the Waterfront op Axtwerp 329 ProtectixG a RubexS ix^ Ax^twerp 335 Belgian Armored Train 337 German Soldiers Sharing Food with Belgiax^ Orphaxs. 349 Cardinal Mercier of Be
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . x 281 Gexeral Paul Pau •. . 286 LouvAiN After the Germax^ Bombardmext 294 The Library of Louvain Before It was Destroyed . . 295 Belgiaxs Diggixg Trenches 309 Siege Gux Used to Reduce Belgiax Forts 313 The Fortress of Dix^ant on the Meuse 318 Malines After the Bombardmex^t 321 Part of the Waterfront op Axtwerp 329 ProtectixG a RubexS ix^ Ax^twerp 335 Belgian Armored Train 337 German Soldiers Sharing Food with Belgiax^ Orphaxs. 349 Cardinal Mercier of Belgium 355 James Yiscoux^t Bryce 358 Edith Cavell in Brussels 364 Brane Whitlock, American Minister to Belgium . . 366 Lox^don Hoxors to Miss Cavells Memory 367 General Baron von Bissing 373 Herbert A. Hoover 374 MAPS Bosnia, Herzegovina and Serbia .... facing page 72 The Balkan^ Wars Before axd After 77 The German Advax^ce Across Belgium . facing page 256 Liege ax^d Its Rix^g of Forts 260 The Rhine Frontier of Germany ax^d France . facing page 272 The Approaches to Antwerp facing page 328 Antwerp and Its Ring of Forts 331 ix. A GROUP OF WAR CORRESPONDENTSWill Irwin Herbert Bayard Swope Ellis Ash mead Bartlett © INTERNATIONAL FILM SERVICE, N. Y. Richard Harding Davis © international film service. n. y. Karl H. von Wieganu Walter DurantyCaspar Whitney Edwin L. James THE SOURCES FOR THIS HISTORY IN the first year of the war a press censorship, more severe thanever known before, w^as imposed on news from all battlefronts,the result being- that it w^as not until long after events occurred thatthe public acquired any clear knowledge of them. This was con-spicuously true of the first battle of the Marne, and the means bywhich Joffre effected his great victory, and especially the relationof that battle to Castelnaus resistance to the Germans at the GrandCouronne. Of the battle of Morhange—the only considerable battlein the whole war that was fought on German soil, and a greater b
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