United States, military preparations of, II, 298-343;
  Act to Increase Military Establishment, II, 300-301;
  cantonment sites chosen, II, 319-320;
  construction and supplies, II, 324-325;
  Council of National Defense, II, 331;
  Council of National Defense organized, II, 334;
  delayed by neutrality, II, 298;
  labor assembled, II, 325;
  labor conditions adjusted, II, 326;
  Medical Reserve, II, 313;
  navy transports troops to Europe, II, 340;
  Officers’ Reserve Corps, II, 313;
  Officers’ Training Camps, II, 314-315;
  organizes mines, agriculture and factories, II, 299;
  Pershing goes to France, II, 328;
  plan to operate railways in France, II, 328;
  Quartermaster General’s problems, II, 329-334;
  Red Cross hospital bases, II, 341;
  Regular Army and National Guard increased, II, 304;
  Selective Draft, II, 304, 305-312;
  training of engineers, II, 337;
  voluntary enlistment, II, 301

V

Van Deventer, General, in East Africa, III, 38

Vaux, fight for possession of, II, 18;
  Germans gain at, II, 19;
  taken by Second Division, III, 251

Vaux, Fort, captured by French, II, 23;
  French victory at, II, 27

Venice, endangered in Italian retreat, III, 99-100

Venizelists, in Greece, III, 54-58

Venizelos, interview with, III, 54-67

Verdun, plateaus on either side the Meuse, II, 10;
  relief map of, II, 10;
  value of, II, 10

Verdun, Battle of, II, 7-29

Vierzy, taken by Second Division, III, 252

Vigneulles, taken by Americans, III, 256

Villers-Bretonneux, Germans checked at, III, 164

Vimy, in Picardy battle, III, 166

Vimy Ridge, German attacks on, II, 68

Vindictive, at Ostend, III, 111, 113-117;
  in Ostend Harbor, III, 101;
  work of, at Zeebrugge, III, 102-110

W

Walthamstow, air raid, I, 375-383

War, causes of, I, 7-40;
  formally declared by the United States, II, 298

War Messages, II, 226-243

Warrior, sunk, II, 52

Warwick, at Zeebrugge, III, 110

Welland Canal, attack on, II, 291

Western Battle Front, August, 1916, Map of, II, 66

William II, Kaiser, eager to act, I, 28-30;
  influence of, I, 16;
  returns to Berlin, I, 23;
  trip to Norway, I, 13;
  ultimatum to Russia, I, 34-35

Wilson, Major General, cited for admirable work, I, 72

Wilson, President, addresses Congress on break with Germany, II,
    192-204;
  ideas on peace, II, 216;
  note regarding peace, II, 214-215;
  War Message of, II, 226-241

Wilson, Vice Admiral H.B., commands U.S.  Naval forces in France,
     III, 281