ARTICLE PAGE

I. A destroyer in active service 7
An American Officer

II.  East Africa 32
Jan Christiaan Smuts

III.  GREECE’S atonement 54
Lewis R. Freeman

IV.  The Italians at bay 69
G.  Ward Price

V. Bottling up Zeebrugge and Ostend 101
Official Narrative

VI.  With the American submarines 119
Henry B. Beston

VII.  Wounded heroes of France 138
Abbe Felix Klein

VIII.  The battle of Picardy 153
J.B.W.  Gardiner

IX.  Bulgaria quits 170
Lothrop Stoddard

X. The fighting Czecho-Slovaks 183
Maynard Owen Williams

XI.  Six days on the American firing line 200
Corporal H.J.  Burbach

XII.  AN AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD 210
Raoul Blanchard

XIII.  NIGHT RAIDS FROM THE AIR 229
Mary Helen Fee

XIV.  THE AMERICAN ARMY IN EUROPE 242
General John J. Pershing

XV.  THE AMERICAN NAVY IN EUROPE 271
Admiral H.T.  Mayo

XVI.  ARMISTICE TERMS SIGNED BY GERMANY 297

XVII.  COVENANT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS 306

XVIII.  TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY 318

XIX.  TREATY OF PEACE WITH AUSTRIA 365

INDEX 375

A DESTROYER IN ACTIVE SERVICE

BY AN AMERICAN OFFICER

APRIL 7.

[Sidenote:  War accepted with equanimity.]

[Sidenote:  Life on a destroyer is simple.]

Well, I must confess that, even after war has been declared, the skies haven’t fallen and oysters taste just the same.  I never would have dreamed that so big a step would be accepted with so much equanimity.  It is due to two causes, I think.  First, because we have trembled on the verge so long and sort of dabbled our toes in the water, that our minds have grown gradually accustomed to what under other circumstances would be a violent shock.  Second, because the individual units of the Navy are so well prepared that there is little to do.  We made a few minor changes in the routine and slipped the war-heads on to the torpedoes, and presto, we were ready for war.  One beauty of a destroyer is that, life on board being reduced to its simplest terms anyhow, there is little to change.  We may be ordered to “strip,” that is, go to our Navy yard and land all combustibles, paints, oils, surplus woodwork, etc.; but we have not done so yet.