The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-08-06
GREAT BRITAIN DECLARED WAR
ON GERMAN EMPIRE LAST NIGHT
CAUSES OF THE WAR

RACES AND RELIGION
The origin of the OBSCURE but for many centuries
three great have held Europe The Ce the
far wes and found Wales reand Scotland but much of
their blood mngng France with other races the Teuons Ger
and Scandinavian and the Sav composed of Bohenans Rus
ans Poles Serians with other smaller and less known naonaes
Race differences aggravated by religious differences The
Slav mostly followers of the eastern Christian church, holding
the bishop of Constaninope their head and generally Diff
enated into national churches and using the ancient Slavic
their ritual They differ in from the Latin Roman
Christians The Teutons Germans originally Roman Ca1-
oc they divided between that communion and the Poes
ant.
Historically the German broke into many small naoanlies and
ubdvded into many political divisions At time they
seriously divided as the Slavs
The of 1866 secured Prussia in the egenony of the Ger
people and the close the Franco Prusan the German
empire proclaimed in the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles the pal
of the old French kings Nearly all the German kingdoms,
dces and prncpaies united under the eadshp of the pus
king who became hereditary emperor of the Germans The Aus
trians alone out.
PAN-SLAVISM
The Savs have also had their dream when 1878 the Turks
driven of the Balkan pncpales under the leader
ship of Russia That country fighting only for the freedom
of the weaker Sav peoples but also port
Russia practically "boted up with winter port It also
the dream of the Romanofs her rulers reign the city of the
ancient Caesars whose family their had married
The European powers despoed Russia of her conquest and
erect arbitrarily independent prncipat the Balkans under
certain suzerains Nobody satisfied large part of the Bgar
left out Of the organization of Bulgaria. millions of Serbs
left of Serva and perhaps S5oooooo speak from
mory included in various provinces of AUSTRIA much larger por
ton than organized under the Servian flag.
AUSTRIAS RAPE OF THE STAR PRINCIPALITIES
About years ago. while the ement Aus
forcby annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina whose people
mostly Serbs and who had also ndgd the desires of paSavc
empire Serva beside herself with anger but her feebness
such could forbid This added the hatred always felt
for the powerful nation just the border
THE ASSASSINATION OF THE ARCH DUKE.
The assassination of the Austria Hungarian heir the throne
and fresh the public mind The Austrian government
traced the murder plot Of Servans claimed They refused
believe that planned in Serva and claim think pos
b abetted by the government They demanded abe apology
and be permitted search for the At the last hour al
lowed by their umau Seva REPLIED but did not admit this right
Of search and the apology deemed insufficient Austria declared
war.
THE BALANCE OF POWER
The key the politics of Europe the balance Of power An
alliance formed ago between Germany Austria and
Italy, This triple alliance for defense matched by triple
nte hardly alliance but close friendship between England
Russia and France The smaller nations counted One set
watches the other.
KINGS THE CAUSE
The German emperor believes in the manifest destiny Of his
empire and the divine right Of kings He considers himself the D
instrument perfect the German empire To bring into the
last element still outside AUSTRIA he has kept the most intimate
aons with that country PanGnan empire under the House
of Hohenzern would be we'll organized face the Russian empire
and dependent allied pan-S Slavic empire.
But what would become of the Hapsbug, hereditary and ten
rulers of Austria? They might retain the sovereignty that
country would remain under the overordp Of the Ho
henzolerns
THE CAUSES
Reduced the of this may thus be
expreed The longing for nationality the natural result Of
mtaris and the aspirations of hereditary monacs It is
not people who war; the Hapsbur the oenzoern
the Romanof
Perhaps the nations their lines and institutions
naturally and homogeneous without this slaughter but human
tongue express the pity of it-Courier-Neoly