Chapter I: Front Matter

</pre>

Produced by Marcia Brooks, Ross Cooling and the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

By Sir Edward Parrott, M.A., LL.D.]

On November 21, 1914, three British aeroplanes flew from France across the mountains into Germany, a distance of 250 miles, and dropped bombs on the Zeppelin factory at Friedrichshafen, on the shores of Lake Constance. Serious damage was done, and all the pilots but one returned safely. Another daring air raid was made on Christmas Day 1914 by seven aeroplanes on German warships lying off Cuxhaven.]

THE
CHILDREN'S STORY
OF THE WAR

BY
SIR EDWARD PARROTT, M.A., LL.D.
AUTHOR OF "BRITAIN OVERSEAS," "THE PAGEANT OF ENGLISH LITERATURE," ETC.

From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914

THOMAS NELSON AND SONS, Ltd.
LONDON, EDINBURGH, PARIS, AND NEW YORK
1916

"_O hearts ever youthful, like schoolboys at play,
So be it with you in the thick of the fray;
In the crash and the smoke and the roar of the fight,
Be it yours, if it need be, to die for the Right!
While deep in your heart a quick prayer shall arise
To Him who looks down on the earth from the skies,
For those whom you love in a faraway Home--
O! shield them, our Father, whatever may come!_"

I. Gregory Smith.
(_By permission of "The Times."_)

CONTENTS.

I. A Glance Backwards 1
II. Some German Theories of War 17
III. From Arras to Armentières 27
IV. From Lille to Nieuport 33
V. Maud'huy at Arras and the Retreat from
Antwerp 43
VI. With Rawlinson in Belgium 49
VII. The Long, Thin Line of Steel and Valour 54
VIII. The Work of the Third British Corps 65
IX. Stirring Stories of Anxious Days 70
X. With the Second Corps 78
XI. The Indians in the Trenches 81
XII. Fire and Flood 87
XIII. Eight Days of Struggle and Anxiety 97
XIV. Tales of Heroes 113
XV. The Crisis of the First Battle of Ypres 129
XVI. The Price of Victory and the Passing of
a Hero 145
XVII. Tales from the Trenches 154
XVIII. More Tales from the Trenches 161
XIX. Germany's Colonial Empire 171
XX. Germany's Vanishing Colonies 177
XXI. The Story of the "Emden" 187
XXII. The Last of the "Emden," and the Sea
Fight off Coronel 193
XXIII. The Fall of Kiao-chau 209
XXIV. The First Attack on Warsaw 218
XXV. Von Hindenburg foiled 225
XXVI. Stories from the Battlefields 231
XXVII. The Second Russian Advance on Cracow 241
XXVIII. The Second Assault on Warsaw 252
XXIX. Warsaw again saved 257
XXX. At War with Turkey 264
XXXI. Fighting in Chaldea 273
XXXII. The Campaign in the Caucasus 278
XXXIII. The Battle of the Serbian Ridges 284
XXXIV. The Battle off the Falkland Islands 289
XXXV. Naval Raids on the East Coast of England 297
XXXVI. Winter in the Trenches 305

VOLUME III.]