CHAPTER VII. STEADFAST SOUTH AFRICA

Botha and Smuts, Rocks of Loyalty Amid a Sea of Treachery--Civil War that Ended with the Drowning of General Beyers and the Arrest of General De Wet--Conquest of the German African Colonies--The Trail of the Hun in the Jungle 210

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VOLUME II

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TORPEDOING OF THE BRITISH BATTLESHIP, “ABOUKIR” _Frontispiece_

A BATTLE OF FOUR ELEMENTS 6

ESCAPING A TORPEDO BY RAPID MANEUVERING 10

HIDE AND SEEK IN THE BALTIC 22

DRIVING THE GERMAN COMMERCE RAIDERS FROM THE SEAS 26

AN AIRPLANE CONVOY 94

UNITED STATES DESTROYERS THROWING OUT A SMOKE SCREEN 130

GERMANY CARRIES THE WAR TO EAST COAST TOWNS OF ENGLAND 134

THE EYE OF THE SUBMARINE 138

THE SINKING OF THE GERMAN CRUISER “BLÜCHER” 142

WOMEN AT WORK THAT MEN MAY FIGHT 148

THE GERMAN CHANCELLORS 164

KAISER WILLIAM II OF GERMANY 172

GERMAN PIRACY ON THE HIGH SEAS 180

THE SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA 188

THE WORLD WAR