"WHEN THE PRUSSIANS CAME TO POLAND"--A TRAGEDY 1
EXPERIENCES OF AN AMERICAN WOMAN DURING THE GERMAN INVASION
Told by Madame Laura de Gozdawa Turczynowicz
(Permission of G. P. Putnam's Sons)
MY EXPERIENCES WITH SPIES IN THE GREAT WAR 16
VISITING WITH SPIES IN AMERICA, NORWAY, SWEDEN,
DENMARK AND GERMANY
Told by Bernhart Paul Hoist
(Permission of Hoist Publishing Company, Boone, Iowa)
"THE ADVENTURE OF THE U-202"--THE KAISER'S ARMADA 40
HUNTING THE SEAS ON A GERMAN SUBMARINE
Told by Baron Spiegel Von Und Zu Peckelsheim,
Captain Lieutenant Commander of the U-202
(Permission of The Century Company)
"PASSED BY THE CENSOR"--TRUE STORIES FROM THE FIELDS OF BATTLE 55
EXPERIENCES OF AN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER MAN IN FRANCE
Told by Wythe Williams, Correspondent of the "New York Times"
(Permission of E. P. Dutton and Company)
"PRIESTS IN THE FIRING LINE"--THE CROSS AND CRUCIFIX 72
A REVEREND FATHER IN THE FRENCH ARMY
Told by Réné Gaell
(Permission of Longmans, Green and Company)
STORIES OF AN AMERICAN WOMAN--SEEN WITH HER OWN EYES 84
"JOURNAL OF SMALL THINGS"
Told by Helen Mackay
(Permission of Duffield and Company)
"PRISONER OF WAR"--SOLDIER'S TALES OF THE ARMY 94
FROM THE BATTLEFIELD TO THE CAMP
Told by André Ward
(Permission of J. B. Lippincott Company)
WAR SCENES I SHALL NEVER FORGET 100
Told by Carita Spencer
(Permission of Carita Spencer, of New York)
"WAR LETTERS FROM FRANCE"--THE HEARTS OF HEROES 123
COLLECTED FROM THE SOLDIERS
Told by A. De Lapradelle and Frederic R. Coudert
(Permission of A. Appleton and Company)
A NURSE AT THE WAR--THE WOMAN AT THE FRONT 129
AN ENGLISHWOMAN IN THE F.A.N.Y. CORPS IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM
Told by Grace MacDougall
(Permission of Robert M. McBride and Company)
"FROM DARTMOUTH TO THE DARDANELLES"--A MIDSHIPMAN'S LOG 140
Told by a Dartmouth Student (Name Suppressed)
(Permission of E. P. Dutton and Company)
HORRORS OF TRENCH FIGHTING--WITH THE CANADIAN HEROES 148
REMARKABLE EXPERIENCES OF AN AMERICAN SOLDIER
Told by Roméo Houle
(Permission of Current History)
THE FLIGHT FROM CAPTIVITY ON "THE THIRD ATTEMPT" 174
HOW I ESCAPED FROM GERMANY
Told by Corporal John Southern and set down by A. E. Littler
(Permission of Wide World, of London)
CLIMBING THE SNOW-CAPPED ALPIAN PEAKS WITH THE ITALIANS 191
"BATTLING WHERE MEN NEVER BATTLED BEFORE"
Told by Whitney Warren
(Permission of New York Sun)
AT SEA IN A TYPHOON ON A UNITED STATES ARMY TRANSPORT 203
STORY OF A VOYAGE IN THE CHINA SEA
Told by (Name Suppressed), a United States Army Officer
A BOY HERO OF THE MIDI--THE LAD FROM MONACO 214
Translated from the Diary of Eugene Escloupié
by Frederik Lees
(Permission of Wide World)
KNIGHTS OF THE AIR--FRENCHMEN WHO DEFY DEATH 232
TALES OF VALOR IN BATTLES OF THE CLOUDS
Told by the Fliers Themselves
(Permission of Literary Digest)
FOUR AMERICAN PRISONERS ABOARD THE YARROWDALE 243
ADVENTURES WITH THE GERMAN RAIDER "MOEWE"
Told by Dr. Orville E. McKim
(Permission of New York World)
HUMORS OF THE EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN 254
Told by "A. E. M. M."
(Permission of Wide World)
STORIES OF HEROIC WOMEN IN THE GREAT WAR 264
TALES OF FEMININE DEEDS OF DARING
(Permission of New York American)
HOW WE STOLE THE TUG-BOAT 283
THE STORY OF A SENSATIONAL ESCAPE FROM THE GERMANS
Told by Sergeant "Maurice Prost"
(Permission of Wide World)
THE RUSSIAN SUN--ON THE TRAIL OF THE COSSACKS 293
"WE ARE THE DON COSSACKS--WE DO NOT SURRENDER!"
Told by Herr Roda Roda
(Permission of New York Tribune)
A BOMBING EXPEDITION WITH THE BRITISH AIR SERVICE 301
DARING ADVENTURES OF THE ROYAL FLIERS
Told by First Lieutenant J. Errol D. Boyd
(Permission of New York World)
HINDENBURG'S DEATH TRAP 310
STORY FROM LIPS OF A YOUNG COSSACK
Told by Lady Glover
(Permission of Wide World)
ON THE GREAT WHITE HOSPITAL TRAIN--GOING HOME TO DIE 321
AN AMERICAN GIRL WITH A RED CROSS TRAIN
Told by Jane Anderson
(Permission of New York Tribune)
MY EXPERIENCES IN THE GREATEST NAVAL BATTLE IN THE WAR 334
WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE "BLUECHER" WENT DOWN
Told by a Survivor
(Permission of New York American)
"TODGER" JONES, V. C. 342
THE MAN WHO CAPTURED A HUNDRED GERMANS SINGLE-HANDED
Told by Himself, set down by A. E. Littler
(Permission of Wide World)
AN OFFICER'S STORY 357
Retold by V. Ropshin
(Permission of Current History)
[Illustration: "THE GLAD HAND"
_An American Sailor in London Meets a Friend in the Canadian Army_]
[Illustration: THE STARS AND STRIPES PASSES THROUGH LONDON TOWN
_The Parade of the First American Contingent Past Cheering Multitudes
of Londoners_]
[Illustration: A LONG WAY FROM THE POLO GROUNDS
_The Germans Complain That the English Don't Take War With Proper
Seriousness: They Actually Play Football Between "Shock" Attacks. The
American is Just as Bad: These Members of Admiral Sims' Destroyer
Squadron Must Have Their Baseball in England as at Home._]
[Illustration: SEEING THEMSELVES IN THE HOME PAPER
_American Nurses Who Have Just Found Pictures of Themselves_]
"WHEN THE PRUSSIANS CAME TO POLAND"--A TRAGEDY
_Experiences of an American Woman During the German Invasion_
_Told by Madame Laura de Gozdawa Turczynowicz_
This is the story of an American woman, the wife of a Polish
noble, who was caught in her home by the floodtide of the German
invasion of the ancient kingdom of Poland. It is a straightforward
narrative, terribly real, of her experiences in the heart of the
eastern war-zone, of her struggle with the extreme conditions, of
her Red Cross work, of her fight for the lives of her children and
herself against the dread Typhus, and at last, of her release and
journey through Germany and Holland to this country; and it is
offered to the public as typical of the experiences of hundreds
of other cultured Polish women. How truly she was in line of the
German advance may be appreciated from the fact that iron-handed
von Hindenberg for some days made his headquarters under her roof.
A few of her hundreds of interesting experiences are told below by
permission of her publishers, _G. P. Putnam's Sons_: Copyright 1916.
[1]I--STORY OF THE POLISH NOBLES
Very near the borderline between Russia and Germany lies Suwalki. It
was a delightful, old-fashioned spot full of homes, and with many
estates in the neighborhood. As one says in Polish, there were there
very many of the "intelligence," meaning the noble class. People who
were proud of the heirlooms, the old and valuable furniture, the
beautiful pictures and books contained in their homes.
Into this old-world peace, came war, and of the homes and people, there
is left only destruction and hopeless gray misery. How well I remember,
and with what astonishment I think upon all that was before war was
declared.
* * * * *
My children were crying from the discomfort of being awakened so early,
and had raised their voices in protest at the general state of disorder.
These three were Wanda, six years, and Stanislaw and Wladislaw, twin
boys, five years! I think they were also protesting that no one was
paying the slightest attention to them, and that was a state of affairs
to which they were not used!...