Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-25

In casting their lot with a cause that
reeks with blood, and with innocent
blood at that?
On June 2s the hideous news spread
like wildfire of the distardly assassi-
nation in Sarajevo of Austrias heir to
the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdi-
nand, and his wife, the Princess
remembers. The whole of civilized
Europe shuddered with the blacknesS
OF the deed, and deep, true sympathy
was felt in all feeling hearts for the
old, much-tried Emperor whose sole
exclamation when he heard of his
nephew's tragic end was There seems
10 be nothing spared me on this
earthu'
The Murder Carefully Planned
The natural supposition of the
world at large was that the murder
GUS plot had been conceived by
little band of fanatical anarchists. but
government investigation proved be
yond the shadow of a doubt that the
Servian government itself. or at least
those high up in its service, had been
directly responsible for the deed. In
museum that the Archduke and his
wife were to have visited sixty bombs
weer found. In the top of a tree a
bomb was found. Under the table
where the royal pair were to have
dined two bombs were found; in the
chimney of the same room a bomb.
In the house of a Servian woman
seven bombs were found. And all of
these bombs were proven to be Ser
Wan military bombs made and fur
nished by a major in the Servian
army. In the house of Greek Cath
olic priest picture was found in
which King Peter of Servia with a
halo about his head was marching
with his victorious army into the city
of Vienna. From the tower of a Ser
Wan church the black flag of death
tioated one-half hour before the muir
derous deed was consummated. All
of Sarajevo was one big trap. Franz
Ferdinand and his wife were lost from
the moment they set foot on Saraievo's
soil.
In the investigation every indica-
ton pointed to the fact that the Ser
Wan government had backed the plot,
but demand from Austria that Ser
via make n thorough inquiry into the
matter received only the most per-
functory sort of an answer, and the
supposed accomplices were allowed
without the slightest demur from the
Servian government to escape to Rus
sia. Austria's investigation was made
quietly and unobtrusively, but thor
oughly. The uninitiated knew little
of the facts thus brought TO light until
Austria had undeniable proof of their
truth. Then with loud voice she raised
her protest.
The Nations stand AghaSt!
On July "a Austria proclaimed be-
fore all the world her ultimatum to
| Servia. Severer charges than she
made no State could make against
another State. The conditions she re-
quired were hard, stern, uncompromis
ing, but in the light of the infamous,
bloody treachery which had led up to
them, they We're absolutely justified.
| Fair minded people were bound to
feel that Servia would have to fulfill
these conditions or-as a nation cease
TO be. Twenty-four hours went by in
feverish waiting. Servia's answer
lcame-insufficient Austria declared
war on Servia. Franz Joseph has al
ways been a lover of peace: indeed,
the world has often wondered how
this proud Hapsburg could bring
himself to forget the evils that he has
suffered from other nations and to
form alliances with those very ones
who have broken the most splendid
pearls from out of his crown. 1t must
in truth have been a bitter resolve for
him in his old age to place his sigma
ture to a war manifesto. Only be-
! cause he knew that IL was the one
way to preserve the honor and integ-
rity of his country could he have given
his consent to so drastic an eXpedient.
The nations stood aghast. What
would happen next? All eyes turned
toward Russia Long ago Russia had
presumed to take upon herself the
| guardianship of the smaller Slavic
States. and in fact had created in her
Foreign Office a special department
for this branch of her politics. Peter
the Great in his testament admon-
ished Russia never to rest until Con-
stantinople. the Key to Europe" be-
come her capital city. If Russia
should now declare war on Austria
there was but one thing that the sister
State Germany could do; but she
hoped and trusted and prayed that she
might not be called on to take this
step.
! Russia the Aggressor
There was no reason in heaven or
on earth why Russia should espouse
the cause of blood and treachery.
! Unless Russia interfered the war
would remain localized, Servia would
receive her merited punishment:
nothing of consequence to the world
would happen. The Car appealed
Mo the Kaiser for advice and help: he
did not wish war and with the Kaiser's
assistance he hoped to avert it.
! Heartily the Kaiser espoused his ap-
peal and was endeavoring body and
soul to keep the peace when suddenly
news came from the German Ambas-
sador in ST. Petersburg that the Car
while urgently sueing for peace, was
mobilizing. not the troops on the Aus
trian frontier alone, but the whole of
/ the Russian army, especially those
troops on the German frontier! A,
demand was made by the Kaiser of
the Car that the mobilization of his
army be instantly stopped and that
an answer to that effect be given with
! in twenty-four hours The only an
swer that Germany has received up
to the present day was an immediate
invasion of her frontier by Russian
troops. Before war was declared be-
tween the two nations Russian troopsl
| invaded German soil.
! His People Must Fight"
! on Friday. July 81, when the news
arrived of Russia's perfidy Berlin
presented a neVer-to- be-forgotten
scene The streets were thronged with
people as I have never seen them
| thronged before. Inter den Linden
the crowd surged from the castle to
the Brandenburger Yoe and from the
Yoe to the castle, breathless, tense,