Chapter III: Introduction: xi

I. THE COMING OF THE GERMANS 1

II. THE ALLIES IN YPRES 14

III. INCIDENTS OF THE STRUGGLE 24

IV. IN THE CELLARS 47

V. THE BOMBARDMENT 70

VI. FLIGHT 92

VII. VISITING THE WOUNDED 107

VIII. AN ATTEMPT TO REVISIT YPRES 128

IX. PREPARING TO START FOR ENGLAND 137

X. A SECOND ATTEMPT TO REVISIT YPRES 143

XI. THE RETURN JOURNEY TO POPERINGHE 157

XII. ON THE WAY TO ENGLAND 171

XIII. OULTON 192

ILLUSTRATIONS

OULTON AND YPRES _Frontispiece_

_The Lady Abbess of Oulton, The Lady Abbess
of Ypres, The Mother Prioress of Ypres._

THE IRISH DAMES OF YPRES _To face p._ 48

_D. Patrick, D. Columban, D. Bernard, D.
Teresa, D. Walburge, D. Placid, Mother
Prioress, D. Aloysius._

THE MOTHER PRIORESS, DAME TERESA,
AND THE THREE NUNS WHO REVISITED
YPRES 144

THE IRISH NUNS AT YPRES