Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-21
BULLET OF SER Wan
STUDENT PLUNGED
EUROPE INTO WAR
Assassination of Austrian
Crown Prince Severed
Fragile Thread That
Bound Continental Nations
in Precarious Amity.
LONDON, Sept. q

LONDON. Sept. 81.
| What started this war in Europe?
Everybody knows that millions of men
are lined up to kill each other; that the
civilization which Europe has been slowly
building up since the dark ages has been
thrown to the winds, and that the sit
| uation Is too big to either write or talk
ABOUT intelligently. 1t will take 100 years
Tor history books to give the news.
The answer is: One little lead bullet
from revolver in the hands of a Ser
Wan high-school boy. And this bullet
probably would never nave been fired if
an ordinary chauffeur had not lost his
way In e little town in Bosnia One little
twist of chauffeur's wrist as he turned
an automobile into a side street uber ho
should nave remained on the main rosh
one little twitch of the right index finger
on the trigger OF a revolver in the hands
OF high-school boy-they started this
war in Europe.
lts hard to find enough to say about
this one lead bullet It went into tba
head of an archduke as he rode in his
automobile. 1t sped through the chan
oil
CeleIIeS or Europe. 1t circled ahout
| thrones. 1t entered the bed chambars oF
the worlds kings, emperors or czars and
IIoVe s,eep from the eyes of statesmen.
h. speu INTO millions OF homes and
brought sorrow and DEATH Oceans of
tears or women and little children !,
created 1t flew into the bourses ma
money markets of the world ana cmt
their nerves.
TO understand the situation in Europe
you can, that every item of cjviIizatio,
everything that is good, home science
art music surgery, education, culture
peace-had all been done up into one
huse package and hung by a slender
Unread over deep preciplce. For wears
tiiS package has swung this way. The
winds of wap.have often Threatened IL
put the statesmen of Europe have stead
ied IL and have strengthened the hold
anu u the storm has passed time after
tme' And then along speeds this one
lead bullet, fired by a high school hnv
named BabrIel Prlnzip. 1t cuts the roma
The crash will be heard throughout CEN
turies. Oe'''
1t all happened on Sunday morning.
June ~ II was playtlme for the lords
or Europe and they were making the
most most OF IT, but lords as they We're of
various sections OF mankind their sight
uld not reach to that little farawav Town
IN Bosnia Chauffeurs and high school
boys don't often toppIe thrones and there |
are so many Of them and they are so
GotInop that they cannot all be watched
hut II would have well paid these lords
OF creation, and it would have well Maid
all humanity this bright Sunday morning,
TO have kept their eyes on Saratevo.
AUSTRIAN CROWN PRINCE SHOT.
What's happening there seems small |
enough at first A little crowd of citf- /
zens go down TO the depot to see a sne |
cial train come in; il bears the ArchdukA
Francis Ferdinand, who, II he lives. will |
some day be Emperor of Austria and
King Of Hungary, He won't live three
hours longer but the crowds don't know,
that. neither do the kings and czars and
emperors of the world With the Arch
duke Is his wife, They have left their
four little children at home in Vienna
ana nave come to SarajevO a little town
IN BOSNIA 10 pay regal visit Europe
ana an humanity might well keep their
eyes glued 10 the automobile which is 10 |
pass through the badly paved streets of
SaraJeYu at 10 o'clock in the morning
FHst there is bomb explosion.
typographer has thrown il. IL doesn't hi,
the automobiles instead. II hits the aIbnur
OF tHe ArchduKe, IL goes of a second
later in the street, some Yards behind
the royal car The chauffeur vrbo.s
wrong twist Of the wrist half an hour
later Is going 10 help plunge Europe into
IN" greatest war mankind has ever
known, has put on speed and saved th.
royal pair Destiny has decided that II
Is not at 1910 I'm the morning that me
Archduke shall die, but at 1910, and thar
not a typographer's bomb. hut a high
Sohool boys hand shall cut the rope from
NhIch hangs over the precipice of war
the worlds civilization and peace.
IL return to the depot bV an Out-Of-
the-Way route says the Archduke, smil-
ing, He's accustomed To attempts at
assassination, members of his own fam
.ly have been killed in that way and he
thinks change I'm his route will out
trick any other attempt
Go down the APPEL quai along the /
water front is the order given to the .
He's a good chauffeur: only
4 little while before he had helped save
The Archduke's life by speeding up al
lust the right oue-millionth of second
We want 10 go 10 the hospital To see ,
hose who were injured In the bomb eN- &
1.os.on,' says the Duke, suddenly. The
chauffeur doesn't know the town we'll {
lie should have continued along the water G
ton' But he makes a mistake. one I
title turn Of his steering wheel and the d
ar IS In a side street
BULLET BRINGS WARS WOES
Look Europe! Look all humanity,
'urn Your eyes from the altars OF the I
hurches whore you are worsbipmg this 3
sunday morning, or stop your sunday d
Holiday playing and watch aud listen D.
hats the way an orator or a historian :
1ght describe this moment loo years
rom now. Just an ordinary chauffeur 4
as made an ordinary mistake. The side \
treet is roughly paved The car must ,