Horrors and Atrocities of the Great War

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Author

Marshall, Logan, 1884-1937

Title

Horrors and Atrocities of the Great War Including the Tragic Destruction of the Lusitania

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Produced by Brian Coe, Harry Lamé, Hathi Trust (for some illustrations) and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

D501: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War I (1914-1918)

Subject

World War, 1914-1918 -- Atrocities

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 55503

Release Date

September 7, 2017

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.HORRORS AND ATROCITIES OF THE GREAT WAR Including the Tragic Destruction of the Lusitania
2. 2.INTRODUCTION
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.CHAPTER I THE SUPREME CRIME AGAINST CIVILIZATION: THE TRAGIC DESTRUCTION OF THE LUSITANIA — AN UNPRECEDENTED CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY — THE LUSITANIA: BUILT FOR “SAFETY” — GERMANY’S ANNOUNCED INTENTION TO SINK THE VESSEL — LINER’S SPEED INCREASED AS DANGER NEARED — SUBMARINE’S PERISCOPE DIPS UNDER SURFACE — PASSENGERS OVERCOME BY POISONOUS FUMES — BOAT CAPSIZES WITH WOMEN AND CHILDREN — HUNDREDS JUMP INTO THE SEA — LUSITANIA GOES TO HER DOOM — INTERVIEW WITH CAPTAIN TURNER
5. 5.CHAPTER II THE HEROES OF THE LUSITANIA AND THEIR HEROISM — ALFRED G. VANDERBILT GAVE LIFE FOR A WOMAN — CHARLES FROHMAN DIED WITHOUT FEAR — SAVING THE BABIES — TORONTO GIRL OF FOURTEEN PROVES HEROINE — HEROISM OF CAPTAIN TURNER AND HIS CREW — WOMAN RESCUED WITH DEAD BABY AT HER BREAST — HEROIC WIRELESS OPERATORS — SAVED HIS WIFE AND HELPED IN RESCUE WORK — “SAVED ALL THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN WE COULD”
6. 6.CHAPTER III SOUL-STIRRING STORIES OF SURVIVORS OF THE LUSITANIA — COULD NOT LAUNCH BOATS — SAYS SHIP SANK IN FIFTEEN MINUTES — SCREAMS INTENSIFY HORROR — ON HUNT FOR THE LIFE-BELTS — INJURED BOY SHOWS PLUCK — MANY CHILDREN DROWNED — WOMEN RUSHED FOR THE BOATS — PATERSON, N. J., GIRLS AMONG RESCUED — THREATENED SEAMEN WITH REVOLVER — RESCUED UNCONSCIOUS FROM THE WATER — LIFE-BOAT SMASHED — REASSURED BY SHIP’S OFFICER
7. 7.CHAPTER IV A CANADIAN’S ACCOUNT OF THE LUSITANIA HORROR — PASSENGERS WERE AGHAST — OCCUPANTS OF LIFE-BOATS THROWN INTO SEA — A HEART-BREAKING SCENE
8. 8.CHAPTER V THE PLOT AGAINST THE RESCUE SHIPS — STORY OF ETONIAN’S CAPTAIN — DODGED TWO SUBMARINES — NARRAGANSETT DRIVEN OFF — TORPEDO FIRED AT NARRAGANSETT
9. 9.CHAPTER VI BRITISH JURY FINDS KAISER A MURDERER — “THE CRIME OF WHOLESALE MURDER” — CAPTAIN TURNER’S TESTIMONY — SAW THE TORPEDO — DOUBLE LOOKOUTS ON LINER — NO WARNING GIVEN — OTHER TESTIMONY — CORONER HORGAN’S STATEMENT
10. 10.CHAPTER VII THE WORLD-WIDE INDICTMENT OF GERMANY FOR THE LUSITANIA ATROCITY — THE EAST — THE WEST — THE SOUTH — SENTIMENT OF THE CANADIAN PRESS — VIEWS OF PROMINENT CANADIANS
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII AMERICA’S PROTEST AGAINST UNCIVILIZED WARFARE — THE NOTE TO GERMANY — ATTACKS CALLED CONTRARY TO RULES OF WARFARE — WARNING TO GERMANY RECALLED — SUBMARINE WARFARE ON COMMERCE CONDEMNED — PUBLISHED WARNING DECLARED NO EXCUSE FOR ATTACK — PROMPT, JUST ACTION BY GERMANY EXPECTED — THE WHOLE NATION BEHIND THE PRESIDENT — SOUTH AND WEST RESOUNDED WITH APPROVAL
12. 12.CHAPTER IX THE GERMAN DEFENSE FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF THE LUSITANIA — BLAMES BRITAIN FOR MISUSE OF FLAGS — INVESTIGATING CASES OF CUSHING AND GULFLIGHT — DECLARES SHIP CARRIED MOUNTED CANNON — SAYS IT ACTED IN JUSTIFIED SELF-DEFENSE — FINAL DECISION ON DEMANDS DEFERRED — AMERICAN OPINION OF GERMAN EXCUSES — EVASIVE AND INSINCERE — ATTACKS ON AMERICAN VESSELS MUST CEASE — SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT
13. 13.CHAPTER X SWIFT REVERSAL TO BARBARISM By Vance Thompson — BREAKING POINT OF CIVILIZATION — BARBARISM AND WOMEN — AFTER BARBARISM WHAT?
14. 14.CHAPTER XI BELGIUM’S BITTER NEED By Sir Gilbert Parker — ABYSS OF WANT AND WOE — NO WORK, AND HEAVY WAR TAXES — PATIENCE OF BELGIANS — CRYING NEED OF FOOD — BELGIAN PEOPLE WARDS OF THE WORLD
15. 15.CHAPTER XII JAMES BRYCE’S REPORT ON SYSTEMATIC MASSACRE IN BELGIUM — A HARROWING RECITAL — TELLS OF MASSACRES — “KILLED IN MASSES” — THE TALE OF LOUVAIN — TREATMENT OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN — CALLS KILLING DELIBERATE — “SPIRIT OF WAR DEIFIED” — THE COMMISSION’S CONCLUSIONS
16. 16.CHAPTER XIII A BELGIAN BOY’S STORY OF THE RUIN OF AERSCHOT — HIS ARREST — A TOWN IN RUINS — BURYING THE DEAD — THE LEVELED GUNS — MARCHING AMONG GERMAN CAMPS — NO MONEY AND NO WORK
17. 17.CHAPTER XIV THE UNSPEAKABLE ATROCITIES OF “CIVILIZED” WARFARE — NOTHING SACRED — HIDEOUS FACES OF THE DEAD — WOMEN FORCED TO DIG GRAVES — GETTING HARDENED — WHOLESALE PILLAGE — MUTILATIONS OF THE DEAD — THE FRENCH REPORT — HORRIBLE CASES OF RAPE — ARSON AND MURDER RAMPANT — UNCONTROLLED SAVAGERY — CONSTANT EVIDENCE OF THEFT — GERMANY DENIES ATROCITIES
18. 18.CHAPTER XV DESTROYING THE PRICELESS MONUMENTS OF CIVILIZATION — ART TREASURES OF HISTORIC CITY — REDUCED TO A HEAP OF ASHES — PITILESS DESTRUCTION AS TOLD BY TOWN TREASURER — A MODERN POMPEII — BURNING OF CITY SYSTEMATIC — INDIGNANT PROTEST AGAINST MODERN HUNS
19. 19.CHAPTER XVI WANTON DESTRUCTION OF THE BEAUTIFUL CATHEDRAL OF RHEIMS — THE “ROYAL CITY” — CATHEDRAL OF NOTRE DAME — ART TREASURES — CATHEDRAL A TARGET — ANGER OF CROWD STILLED BY PRIESTS — “SUPREME SACRIFICE AGAINST THE SPIRIT OF MAN” — BEAUTY IRREPARABLY GONE
20. 20.CHAPTER XVII THE CANADIANS’ GLORIOUS FEAT AT LANGEMARCK — A REMARKABLE PERFORMANCE — QUIET PRECEDING STORM — SECOND BATTLE OF YPRES — LINE NEVER WAVERED — OFFICER FELL AT HEAD OF TROOPS — FORTUNES OF THIRD BRIGADE — IN DIRE PERIL — OVERWHELMING NUMBERS — SECOND BRIGADE PUT TO TEST — CAPTURE OF ST. JULIEN — A HERO LEADING HEROES
21. 21.CHAPTER XVIII PITIFUL FLIGHT OF A MILLION WOMEN By Philip Gibbs Of the London Daily Chronicle — THE PRIZE OF PARIS — HEROIC EFFORTS OF FRENCH SOLDIERS — GERMANS BALKED OF THEIR PRIZE — SIXTY MILES OF FUGITIVES — TERROR IN EYES — PARIS THE BEAUTIFUL
22. 22.CHAPTER XIX FACING DEATH IN THE TRENCHES — GERMANS HAVE LEARNED MUCH — STANDARDIZED MODEL — FRENCH STUDY OF GERMAN METHODS — “COMFORTS OF HOME” — BRITISH REFUGES IN NORTHERN FRANCE — “PICNICKING” IN THE OPEN AIR — RAVAGES OF ARTILLERY FIRE — THE COMMON ENEMY, THE WEATHER — WHY COOKS WEAR IRON CROSSES — “PUTTING ONE OVER” ON THE RUSSIANS
23. 23.CHAPTER XX A VIVID PICTURE OF WAR — A SURPRISE PREPARED — “HELL BROKE LOOSE” — A HORRIBLE THIRTY-FIVE MINUTES — TRENCHES FILLED WITH DEAD — HOARSE SHOUTS AND THE GROANS OF THE WOUNDED — INDESCRIBABLE MASS OF RUINS — “SMEARED WITH DUST AND BLOOD”
24. 24.CHAPTER XXI HARROWING SCENES ALONG THE BATTLE LINES — ON THE FIRING LINE — AMONG MANGLED HORSES AND MEN — GERMAN LOSSES FRIGHTFUL — DIXMUDE A PLACE OF DEATH AND HORROR
25. 25.CHAPTER XXII WHAT THE MEN IN THE TRENCHES WRITE HOME — “WAR IS TERRIBLE” — THE COMMON ENEMY, DEATH — “SAME PAIR OF BLUE EYES” — FIGHTING WITHOUT HATE
26. 26.CHAPTER XXIII BOMBARDING UNDEFENDED CITIES — MRS. KAUFFMAN’S DESCRIPTION — CANNONADING AT WHITBY — FREAKISH EFFECTS OF SHELLS — FLIGHT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN
27. 27.CHAPTER XXIV GERMANY’S FATAL WAR ZONE — UNITED STATES REFUSED TO RECOGNIZE WAR ZONE — A VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS — AIMED AT NEUTRAL SHIPPING — AN INHUMAN POLICY
28. 28.CHAPTER XXV MULTITUDINOUS TRAGEDIES AT SEA — THE ATTACK ON THE GULFLIGHT
29. 29.CHAPTER XXVI HOW “NEUTRAL” WATERS ARE VIOLATED — THE THREE-MILE LIMIT — BELLIGERENTS’ RIGHTS — NOTICE IN LEAVING NEUTRAL WATERS — EVASIONS OF NEUTRALITY
30. 30.CHAPTER XXVII THE TERRIBLE DISTRESS OF POLAND — DESOLATION AND FAMINE THROUGHOUT LAND — RICH AND POOR ALIKE DESTITUTE — PLIGHT OF RUSSIAN POLAND — NO BREAD FOR WEEKS IN LODZ — THREE TIMES A BATTLE-FIELD — UNABLE TO HELP HERSELF — NO SEED AND NO DRAFT ANIMALS
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVIII THE GHASTLY HAVOC WROUGHT BY THE AIR-DEMONS — KINDS OF BOMBS — STEEL DARTS — “ARROW BULLETS” AND AERIAL TORPEDOES — MACHINE GUNS IN AIRCRAFT — ACCURACY IN DROPPING BOMBS
32. 32.CHAPTER XXIX THE DEADLY SUBMARINE AND ITS STEALTHY DESTRUCTION — ATTACK ON LINER DESCRIBED — OPERATION OF TORPEDOES — NETS TO TRAP SUBMARINES — HOW CRAFT SUBMERGE
33. 33.CHAPTER XXX THE TERRIBLE WORK OF ARTILLERY IN WAR — INCREASED RANGE — MODERN GUNS — RAPID FIRING — HOW A BIG GUN IS AIMED — AWFUL DESTRUCTIVENESS OF MODERN GUNS
34. 34.CHAPTER XXXI WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER BY POISONOUS GASES — CANADIAN VICTIMS — “TRENCH GAS” AT YPRES — AWFUL FORM OF SCIENTIFIC TORTURE — REPORT OF MEDICAL EXPERT — KIND OF GAS EMPLOYED — ALLIES FORCED TO USE SIMILAR METHODS
35. 35.CHAPTER XXXII “USAGES OF WAR ON LAND”: THE OFFICIAL GERMAN MANUAL — UNLIMITED DESTRUCTION THE END OF WAR — RULES OF CIVILIZED WARFARE CLEARLY STATED — OTHER EXCELLENT RULES
36. 36.CHAPTER XXXIII THE SACRIFICE OF THE HORSE IN WARFARE — PART PLAYED BY HORSE IN WAR — AMERICAN STOCK DEPLETED
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXIV SCOURGES THAT FOLLOW IN THE WAKE OF BATTLE — SCOURGES OF MODERN WARFARE — RAVAGES OF TYPHUS IN SERVIA — NO WORD OF COMPLAINT — AMERICA TO THE RESCUE
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXV WAR’S REPAIR SHOP: CARING FOR THE WOUNDED — THE BANDAGING CAMP — THE SANITATION COMPANY — THE HOSPITAL BARGE
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXVI WHAT WILL THE HORRORS AND ATROCITIES OF THE GREAT WAR LEAD TO? — THE SPREAD OF DEMOCRACY — DECLINE OF THE WAR SPIRIT — THE DAWN OF UNIVERSAL PEACE
40. 40.Transcriber’s Notes

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