Fort and Village—Battle of Mort Homme 348

PART IX.—THE WAR IN THE AIR

• The Value of Zeppelins in Long-Distance Reconnoitering—Naval Auxiliaries 412
• Aeroplane Improvements—Giant Machines—Technical Developments 418
• Losses and Casualties in Aerial Warfare—Discrepancies in Official Reports—"Driven Down" and "Destroyed" 424
• Aerial Combats and Raids 427

PART X.—THE UNITED STATES AND THE BELLIGERENTS

• War Cloud in Congress 433
• The President Upheld in Armed-Merchantmen Issue—Final Crisis With Germany 439
• The American Ultimatum—Germany Yields 449

• Two Years of the War. By Frank H. Simonds
• 1. The German Problem 461
  2. The Belgian Phase 463
  3. The French Offensive 466
  4. The Battle of the Marne 469
  5. The End of the First Western Campaign 472
  6. The Russian Phase 476
  7. Tannenberg and Lemberg 476
  8. Warsaw and Lodz 479
  9. The Galician Campaign 480
  10. The Battle of the Dunajec 481
  11. Russia Survives 484
  12. The Balkan Campaign 484
  13. In the West 487
  14. Italy 488
  15. Verdun 488
  16. The February Attack 490
  17. Later