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Chapter XXVII: Succor and Solace (3)

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Radoslavov, Premier of Bulgaria, III, 372
Radziviloff, Austrian victory at, IV, 204
Ramsgate, air raids on, IV, 26
Ramillies, taken by Canadians, VIII, 402
Rancourt, capture of, by the French, VI, 27
Rasputin, assassination of, VI, 221
Rawlinson, General, attack by Germans, VIII, 21
Rawlinson, General, in advance to Cologne, VIII, 79
Rawa-Russka, battle of, II, 395
Read, General George, VIII, 183
Red Cross in Serbia, II, 354
Reichstag, Bethmann-Hollweg's statement in, I, 502
Reid, Hon. J. D., Canadian Minister of Customs, VIII, 265
Rennenkampf, General, II, 443
Rennie, General R., VIII, 358, 388
Rennie, General, attacks machine-gun position, VIII, 331
Rensburg, Van, II, 577
Reparations, VIII, 236
Respirators, use of, I, 53
Ressons-sur-Matz, taken by French, VIII, 17
Rheims, bombardment of, II, 146-153; III, 152, 154; VI, 237
Rheims, German attack upon, VII, 317
Rhine bridgeheads, to be held by the Allies, VIII, 246
Rhodesia, border fighting in, III, 495
Ribecourt, taken by the French, VIII, 20
Rifles used in different armies, I, 26
Riga-Dvinsk sector, German offensive against, V, 125, 128
Riga, Gulf of, Russian torpedo boats in, V, 151
Riga, Russo-German operations around, V, 204
Rights at sea, assertion of, by United States Government, IV, 480
Rizeh, Russian occupation of, V, 294
Roche, Hon. W. J., Canadian Minister of the Interior, VIII, 265
Rockwell, Kiffin, death of, in air battle, VI, 181
Redman, Roar-Admiral Hugh, VIII, 147
Rodzianko, President of Duma, VI, 394
Roeux, taken, VIII, 33
Rogers, Robert, Canadian Minister of Public Works, VIII, 265
Roosevelt, Theodore, efforts to command troops in France, VI, 335
Root, Elihu, arrival of, in Russia as American Commissioner, VI, 417
Roubaix, taken by the Allies, VIII, 63
Roulers, attack on, II, 183
Roulers, taken by Belgians, VIII, 52
Rovereto, Italian advance toward, V, 244
Rovereto, Italian attack on, IV, 396; V, 244
Rovno Fortress, strength of, IV, 212
Royal Canadian Navy, VIII, 301
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve, VIII, 301
_Royal Edward_, British troopship, sinking of, IV, 149
Royal Flying Corps, British, activities of, V, 425
Royal Military College, Kingston, Canada, VIII, 266
Roye, capture of, VII, 280
Roye, investment of, VIII, 32
Roye, taken by the French, VIII, 33
Rozan, capture of, III, 361
Rozieres, taken by British, VIII, 18
Ruffey, General, II, 55
Rumania, conditions in, VII, 250, 252
Rumania, military strength of, VI, 185-186
Rumania, neutrality of, IV, 256
Rumanian raid across the Danube, VI, 106-111
Rumilly, VIII, 52
Rupprecht, Crown Prince, in battle with British, VIII, 29
Russia, area of, I, 286
Russia, Allied military intervention in, VIII, 85
Russia and Great Britain in Persia, I, 185
Russia, Czechoslovaks in, VIII, 80
Russia, German advance in, VII, 436
Russia, German peace with, VII, 420
Russia, in Treaty of Peace, VIII, 230
Russia, advance on the eastern front, V, 120
Russian advance on Trebizond, IV, 389
Russian armies, mobilization of, I, 309
Roman army, characteristics of, I, 55
Russian artillery activity, V, 134
Russian defeat, effect of, on Dardanelles campaign, IV, 364
Russian disorganization, attempts by Germans, VI, 422
Russian foreign policy, I, 151
Russian grand dukes, arrest of, VII, 137
Russian losses in August, 1915, IV, 202-203
Russian losses in Russo-German campaign, II, 488
Russian mobilization, I, 405
Russian note to Great Powers, July 25, 1914, I, 271
Russian offensive against Caucasus, reasons for, IV, 383
Russian offensive in the east, beginning of, V, 154
Russian peace terms with Germany, VII, 424
Russian Poland, II, 268
Russian pursuit of Turkish forces, V, 292
Russian retreat, IV, 229, 239
Russian retreat in Persia, V, 336
Russian revolution, foreshadowing of, VI, 363-365
Russian rout in Galicia, VI, 445-447
Russian torpedo boats in the Gulf of Riga, V, 147
Russia's attitude on coercion of Serbia, I, 377
Russia's strategy in the East, II, 483
Russky, General, II, 377
Russky, General, retires from command, IV, 254

Saarbruecken, bombardment of, by French aeroplanes, IV, 48
St. Eloi, British attack at, V, 72
St. Eloi, Canadian Second Division at, VIII, 342
St. Eloi, "Princess Pats" at, VIII, 307
St. Eloi Sector, VIII, 355
St. Gobain Forest, VIII, 59
St. Julien, assaults on, III, 102
St. Julien, taken by the Germans, VIII, 316
St. Mard, taken, VIII, 32
St. Mihiel, French successes at, VI, 231
St. Mihiel salient, American operations in, VII, 349
St. Mihiel Salient, VIII, 163
St. Mihiel salient, attacks on, VII, 349
St. Mihiel Salient, taken, VIII, 43
St. Nazaire, Canadian troops arrive at, VIII, 304
St. Paul-aux-Bois, taken by French, VIII, 28
St. Quentin-Cambrai, British attack, VIII, 53
St. Quentin Canal, American attacks on, III, 116
St. Quentin, operations around, VI, 236
St. Quentin, taken by the French, VIII, 52
Saloniki, Allied forces at, V, 211
Saloniki, bombardment by aeroplanes, V, 429
Saloniki, fortification of, IV, 321
Saloniki, German air raid on, V, 212
Salonika, importance of, I, 61
Saloniki Railway, importance of, I, 100
Samogneux, abandonment of, by French, IV, 137
Samsonoff, General, II, 436
San, battle of, III, 297, 301
San, battles of the, II, 398
Sanctuary Wood, Canadians fight in, VIII, 354
Saponay, taken by French, VIII, 9
Sapignies, taken, VIII, 31
Sarajevo, I, 260; II, 277
Sari Bair, attack on, IV, 348
Sarrail, General, commands French Third Army, II, 76
Sarrail, General, commands French troops in Serbia, IV, 279
Sarrail, General, offensive by, VI, 124-126
Sarre Basin, French rights in, VIII, 227
Scarborough, raids on, II, 247
Scarpe River, VIII, 30
Scheer, Admiral von, in Battle of Jutland Bank, V, 76
Scheldt Canal, crossed by British, VIII, 56
Scheldt Canal, Germans blow up bridges, VIII, 75
Scheldt Canal, passage forced, VIII, 53
Scheldt River, Germans retreat on, VIII, 67
Scotch, on Ancre, VI, 43
Scotland, Zeppelin attacks on, V, 428
Sea combats, fatalities in, I, 25
Sea command and troop transportation, I, 24
Seaplanes in attack on merchantmen, IV, 471
Sea power as a factor in war, I, 18
Sea power, importance of, I, 41
Second Canadian Division, VIII, 286
Second Canadian Infantry Brigade, VIII, 353
Second Liberty Loan, VII, 112, 113
Sedan, entered by General Gouraud, VIII, 76
Seeley, Major General J. E. B., commands Canadian Cavalry Brigade,
VIII, 286, 332, 367
Seicheprey, VII, 359
Seicheprey, attacks on Americans at, VII, 359
Selective Draft Law, VI, 346
Semendria, bombardment of, IV 269
Semenov, General, VIII, 87
Serbia advised to seek British mediation, I, 408
Serbia, area of, I, 286
Serbia, invasion of, II, 301; IV, 177
Serbia, northern, conquest of, by Germans, IV, 277
Serbia, offers of peace, III, 376
Serbian advance in Macedonia, VI, 132
Serbian Allies retreat to Albania, IV, 303
Serbian army, strength of, in November, 1915, IV, 293, 294
Serbian invasion of Austria II, 323
Serbian nation, flight of, IV, 301
Serbian propaganda in Bosnia and Herzegovina, I, 259
Serbian reply to Austrian note, I, 265-270
Serbian resistance at Babuna Pass, IV, 283
Serbian troops, transport of, across Greek territory, V, 218
Sereth River, crossing of, by Russian forces, V, 178
Sergy, capture of, by Americans, VII, 413
Seringes, capture of, by Americans, VII, 414
Shabatz, battle of, II, 317
Shantung, Japan acquires German rights, VIII, 232
Shipbuilding, in Canada, VIII, 432
Shipbuilding program, VI, 343
Shipping, neutral, loss of, IV, 170
Ships of American registry, seizure by British, V, 49
Shumadia Division of Serbian army, heroism of, IV, 275
Siberia, American participation in, VII, 449
Sibert, William, active commander of American expeditionary force,
VI, 357
Simonds, Frank H., summary of two years of war, V, 461, 502
Sims, Admiral, commander of American destroyer flotilla, VI, 357
Sinai Peninsula, invasion of, II, 501
Sixth French army at the Marne, IV, 41
Smith-Dorrien, General, II, 60
Soissons, operations around, V, 376; VII, 311
Soissons, Rheims front, VIII, 9
Soissons-Rheims salient, Allied progress in, VII, 332
Soissons, taken by the Allies, VIII, 9
Soldau, capture of, II, 437
Soldiers' and Workmen's Council, VII, 141
Soldiers' Civil Reestablishment, VIII, 448
Soldier Settlement Board in Canada, VIII, 439
Somme Canal, crossed, VIII, 39
Somme, battles of, beginning, V, 377
Somme, British and French offensive on the, VI, 27
Somme offensive, object of Allies in, V, 377
Somme offensive, preparations for, V, 384
Somme offensive, spring of, 1916, VI, 9
Somme, second phase of battle, V, 403
Sophia, Queen of Greece, intrigues of, VII, 248
Souain sector, movements in, IV, 71-72
Souchez, attacks on, III, 124, 125
Souchez, Canadian raids at, VI, 222
Souchez, French attack on, IV, 84
Souchez River, VIII, 361
Southwest Africa, British conquest of, III, 484, 493
Soviets, President Wilson's message to, VII, 428
Spee, Admiral von, II, 230
Speed plane, use of, in warfare, V, 421
Spies in warfare, I, 71
Stallupoehnen, battle of, II, 435
Steele, General, VIII, 339
Steele, Major General S. B., commands Second Canadian Division, VIII, 281
Stepanovitch, Marshal, directs Serbian retreat, IV, 29
Stewart, Major, death of, VIII, 354
Stokhod, operations around, VI, 73
Stokhod River, battle on, VI, 76-81
Stony Mountain, VIII, 335
Stony Mountain, work of Canadians at, III, 145
Strategic advantages of Central Powers, I, 32
Strypa River, fighting along, IV, 223
Strypa River, Russian artillery attacks along, V, 138
Stuttgart, bombardment of, by French aviators, IV, 61
Styr River, IV, 223-229
Submarine attacks on American transports, VI, 358
Submarine campaign, German, IV, 166
Submarine, effectiveness of, I, 19
Submarine, evidence for detecting, I, 21
Submarine, German efficiency of, IV, 187
Submarine negotiations between Germany and United States, VI, 194
Submarine warfare, III, 209, 222; VI, 182, 188
Submarine warfare, attitude of Grand Admiral von Tirpitz toward, IV, 499
Submarine warfare in the spring of 1917, VI, 475
Submarine, when dangerous, I, 20
Submarines, aeroplane warfare on, V, 414
Submarines and battleships, I, 19, 20
Submarines and merchantmen, I, 20
Submarines, destroyed by United States naval vessels, VII, 467
Suez Canal, attacks on, III, 509
Suez Canal, defenses of, III, 18, 19; IV, 11
Summerall, General, VIII, 159
Summary of first year's operations on the western front, IV, 39, 46
Summary, Two Years of the War, V, 461
Supreme War Council, VII, 81
_Sussex_, Channel steamer, sinking of, V, 63
Suvla Bay, fighting at, IV, 355
Suvla Bay, plan of attack, IV, 347
Suwalki, occupation of, II, 448
_Sydney_, victorious over Emden, II, 229

Talaat Bey, orders Armenian massacre, IV, 378
Tank, first employment of, VI, 45
Tanks, cooperation of, VIII, 31
"Tanks," employment of, by British, VII, 59
Tanks, first employment of, by Germans, VII, 298
Tanks, in British advance of 1918, VIII, 27
Tanks, transformed into forts, VIII, 45
Tanks, with Canadian Corps, VIII, 380
Tannenberg, battle of, II, 438
Tergovistea, capture of, by Austro-Germans, VI, 117
Terrorism in Russia, I, 153
Thiepval, British successes around, VI, 17
Thiepval Ridge, VIII, 31
Thiescourt, taken, VIII, 29
Thiescourt Wood, occupied, VIII, 25
Third British Army, advance of, VIII, 26
Third Corps, on the west bank of the Meuse, VII, 408
Third Toronto Regiment, work of, III, 143
Tigris River, conditions in, IV, 426
Tilleloy, VIII, 19
Time limit for opening hostilities, controversy over, I, 369
Todoroff, General, IV, 272
Todoroff, General, commands Bulgarian Second Army, IV, 270
Togoland, campaign in, III, 62
Torpedoes, effectiveness of, I, 23
Toul sector, American operations in, VII, 353, 354
Tournai, captured, VIII, 75
Townshend, General, in campaign against Bagdad, IV, 422
Townshend, General, sent by Turks to ask armistice, VIII, 136
Trade, foreign, of Germany, I, 49
Training, military, importance of, I, 14
Transit, through Germany, VIII, 244
Transloy, British at, VI, 65
Transports, protection of, I, 18
Trans-Siberian railway, I, 153
Transylvania, operations of General Falkenhayn in, VI, 108
Treaty of Peace, VIII, 221
Trebizond, occupation of, V, 297
Trebizond, Russian advance on, IV, 390
Trench bombs, I, 75
Trench fighting, I, 68
Trentino front, activities along, VI, 452
Trieste, Italian drive for, VI, 463
Trieste, Italians land at, VIII, 135
Triple Alliance, renewal of, I, 141
Triple Entente, formation of, I, 158
Trotzky, Leon, attitude toward Germany, VII, 183
Trotzky, Leon, career of, VII, 152
Trugny, American struggle for, VII, 409
Turkey and the war, I, 62
Turkish accounts of abandonment at Gallipoli, IV, 371
Turkish attack on Russians, IV, 256
Turkish booty at Trebizond, V, 304
Turkish defeat at Kut-el-Amara, IV, 422
Turkish defeat at Nasiriyeh, IV, 422
Turkish flight from Erzerum, IV, 389
Turkish navy, operations of, IV, 170
Turner, General R. E. W., commands Second Canadian Division,
VIII, 286, 339, 340
Turner, General R. E. W., at second battle of Ypres, VIII, 309
Turner, General Sir R. E. W., in charge of administration of Canadian
troops in England, VIII, 252
_Tuscania_, sinking of, VII, 461
Tuxford, General, VIII, 355, 358
Typhus, epidemic of, II, 356
Typhus in the Caucasus, III, 475

_U-53_, exploits of, VI, 194
Uganda protectorate, I, 180
Ukraine, agitation for separate government, VII, 140
Ukrainia, condition in, VII, 185
Ukrainia, invasion of, by Germans, VII, 429
Ukrainia, martial law in, VII, 435
Ultimatum, American, to Germany, V, 449
Unification of Germany, I, 130
United Siberian Government, VIII, 87
United States, German propaganda in, IV, 505
United States, Government and _Sussex_, V, 443
University of Toronto, number enlisted from, VIII, 284
Ussuri River, Japanese defeat Bolsheviki on, VIII, 87

Valcartier Camp, VIII, 268
Valenciennes, Germans flood country around, VIII, 68
Valenciennes, objective of British First Army, VIII, 414
Valenciennes, taken by Canadians, VIII, 71, 421
Van, Russian successes in, III, 477
Vauquois, attacks on, III, 157
Vauvillers, taken by British, VIII, 18
Vauxaillon, French advance toward, VIII, 40
Vaux Fort, French recapture of, VI, 37-39
Vaux, French defense of, V, 351, 367
Vaux, German attacks on, V, 363
Vaux, German counterattacks at, VII, 398
Vendhuile, Germans evacuate, VIII, 46
Venice, air raids on, III, 426; VI, 169
Venizelos, attacks of, on Greek Government, IV, 311
Venizelos, E., I, 60; V, 217
Venizelos, statement on conditions in Greece, V, 317
Verdun, attack on, I, 64
Verdun, bombardment of, IV, 131
Verdun, effect of siege, V, 371
Verdun, French victories at, VI, 54
Verdun, German attacks northwest of, VII, 52
Verdun, preparation in, IV, 133
Verdun, struggle for, IV, 131, 142
Vesle River, Americans on, VII, 416
Vesle River, crossed by Allies, VIII, 11
Vesle River, floods hamper German retreat, VIII, 12
Victor Emanuel III, I, 194
Ville-en-Tardenois, taken by Allies, VIII, 9
Villeneuve, entered by French, VIII, 10
Villers-aux-Erables, taken by French, VIII, 15
Villers Bretonneux, taken, VII, 299
Villers-Cotterets Wood, VII, 319
Villers-Guislain, taken, VIII, 51
Vilna, campaign against, IV, 187, 192
Vimy front, VIII, 368, 369
Vimy Ridge, VIII, 357, 370
Vimy Ridge, capture of, by Canadians, VI, 239
Vimy Ridge, taken by Canadians, VIII, 360, 362
Vis-en-Artois, occupied, VIII, 33
Viviani, Rene, I, 318
Vladivostok, occupation of, by Czecho-Slovaks, VII, 446
Volhynia, Austrian offensive, V, 138
Von Bernstorff, Count, propaganda in United States, IV, 485
Von Bethmann-Hollweg, attitude on submarine issue, IV, 485
Von der Goltz, Baron, military governor of Belgium, II, 53
Von Jagow, interview with Sir E. Goschen, I, 502
Von Mackensen, commands German forces in Serbia, IV, 258
Von Papen, recall demanded, V, 26
Von Rintelen, Franz, activities of, V, 22, 28
Von Tirpitz, Grand Admiral, attitude toward submarine warfare, IV, 484
Vouziers, occupied, VIII, 59
Vrely, taken by the British, VIII, 18
Vukotich, General, II, 360

War and machinery, I, 66
War debt, German, IV, 433
War, German declaration of, VI, 103
War service gratuity, VIII, 442
War Trade Board, VIII, 436
Warsaw, attack on, II, 450
Warsaw, capture of, III, 366-368
Warsaw, movements upon, III, 346
Warsaw, occupation of, by Germans, IV, 178
Warspite, Jutland, V, 89
Warvillers, taken, VIII, 18
War zone, establishment of, III, 170
Watson, Colonel, VIII, 317
Watson, General, VIII, 347, 372
Watson, General, commands Canadian Fourth Division, VIII, 358
Weapons of the Allies, VIII, 42
Wemyss, Rear Admiral Rosslyn E., commands convoy of Canadian troops,
VIII, 269
Western front activity in, in January, 1916, IV, 121
Western front on February 1, 1916, IV, 126
Western front, situation in, on August 1, 1915, IV, 46
Western front, summary of the first year's operations on, IV, 39-46
Wheat requirements, VII, 127
Whitby, raids on, II, 247
White, Sir Thomas, Canadian Minister of Finance, VIII, 265
Whitehaven, raids on, IV, 119
Whitlock, Brand, efforts to aid Miss Cavell, IV, 100, 101
Wilhelm II, abdication of, VIII, 112
Wilhelm II, address to army and navy, VIII, 106
Wilhelm II, arraigned for war responsibility, VIII, 235
William II, accession of, I, 134
Williams, Colonel V. A. S., Canadian Adjutant General, VIII, 266
Williams, General Victor, VIII, 349, 351
Wilson, President, address before Congress, April, 1917, VI, 320-326
Wilson, President, addresses Congress on armed neutrality, VI, 304
Wilson, President, addresses Congress on issues with Germany, V, 448
Wilson, President, addresses Congress on peace, VII, 103
Wilson, President, address of, April, 1918, VII, 349
Wilson, President, and Congress, V, 434
Wilson, President, at Peace Conference, VIII, 195
Wilson, President, letter to Congress, IV, 503
Wilson, President, proclamation convening Congress, VI, 319
Wilson, President, reads draft of constitution of the League of
Nations, VIII, 208
Wilson, President, reply to Pope Benedict, VII, 99
Wilson, President Woodrow, suggests armed neutrality, VI, 304
Wilson, President, suspicion of pro-German propaganda in Congress,
IV, 505
Wilson, President Woodrow, war message of, VI, 320-326
Windhoek, capture of, III, 489
Wirballen, attacks on, III, 317
Wire, barbed, and shrapnel, I, 73
Women, in Canadian munition works, VIII, 433
Wuerttemberg, Duke Albert von, II, 10

Xivray, German attack upon, VII, 363

Yani Sandanski, I, 245
Yarmouth, raids on, II, 246
_Yarrowdale_, prisoners in Germany, VI, 297
Younghusband, General, IV, 446
Y. M. C. A., Canadian, VIII, 454, 456
Young Turks, I, 243
Yperlee Canal, III, 107
Ypres, attack on, II, 171, 172, 174
Ypres, bombardment of, III, 95
Ypres, bombardment of, by Germans, VII, 301
Ypres, British retire from, VII, 297
Ypres, first battle of, IV, 44
Ypres, German success at, in February, 1916, IV, 122
Ypres-Roulers Railway, VIII, 366
Ypres, second battle of, III, 99, 106; VIII, 308
Ypres, second British line readjusted, VIII, 318
Ypres sector, operations in, in March, 1916, V, 372, 373
Yser, battle of, II, 168
Yser, movements at, III, 167
Yser region, flood in, IV, 117

Zaimis, Alexander, Greek Premier, V, 227
Zanzibar, I, 180
Zeebrugge, British attacks on, VI, 482
Zeebrugge Harbor, blocking of, VII, 470, 473
Zeebrugge, occupied by the Allies, VIII, 63
Zeebrugge, shelling of, by British fleet, V, 66
Zeppelin attack on Warsaw, IV, 19
Zeppelin, Count Ferdinand, death of, VI, 494
Zeppelin raid on London in October, 1915, IV, 466
Zeppelin raids on England, IV, 16, 466; V, 422; VI, 494
Zeppelin raids over the British Isles, IV, 467
Zeppelins, destruction of, IV, 468
Zeppelins, losses of, numbers destroyed, VI, 179
Zollern Redoubt, VIII, 357
Zungar Valley, Austro-Italian operations in, V, 235

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