Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-07-02
ONE YEAR OF WAR
Twelve Months Of Fighting Has Cost
Millions of Men.

mllIlonS OF men.
One year ago last Monday the Aus
trian archduke, Francis Ferdinand,
and his wife were shot and killed In
the little Bosnian town Of Serajevo by
Garvio Prinzip. 1t was the act of
Prinzip, a poor student, which ulti-
mately resulted in ten nations going
to war. These nations are, on one
hand, Great Britain, France, Russia.
Serbia, Japan, Belgium, Italy and
Montenegro, and, on the other, Ger
many, Austria and Turkey. The war
to date, according to conservative es-
Inmates compiled from the best avail
able reports, has caused a loss to the
various belligerents Of more than six
million men, dead, wounded and pris-
oners, and more than 500 ships. OF
these about 120 were war vessels.
The outstanding results on land are
these:
| The greater portion Of Belgium Is
under the control of Germany.
| Germany has been driven from the
Far East.
| A part of the Dardanelles is in the
possession of the allied troops.
Portions of France and Russia are
| in the possession of German troops.
A strip Of Alsace has been taken
from Germany.
On the continent Of Africa parts OF
| lnCt
by both sides.
Various island possessions Of Ger
many have been taken by the forces
Of the allies.
Italian troops are in possession OF
a strip of Austrian territory.
The outstanding results at sea are
these:
German and Austrian mercantile
shipping has been driven from all the
open seas.
War vessels Of the allied nation:
having a total displacement Of approx
|imately $4,000 tons have been SEN
to the bottom.
The greater portions of the German
and allied fleets in the North sea re-
main intact.
Except for communication through
Holland and the Scandinavian nations
Germany is cut off from the rest o.
the world.
Efforts on the part Of the German!
to place the British Isles in a similar
predicament has resulted in the sink
ing by submarines of hundreds o.
vessels flying the flags Of the alliet
and neutral nations.
The sinking in this manner of thu
Cunard liner Lusitania with the los:
of more than one hundred American
lives, precipitated a request upon thu
part Of the United States that such
practices in so far as they might men
ace Americans. be stopped.
Prinzip's crime was committed OF
June 2S. An investigation disclosed
what was alleged to be proof that the
assassin was the tool Of a group OF
Serbians. On July 23, after consider
able correspondence and negotiations
an ultimatum was sent to Serbia by
the Austro-Hungarian government
which Serbia declined to meet. A
week later a general mobilization OF
Russian troops along the German
border was ordered, and the follow
ing day Germany declared war or
Russia. The news Of that event was
followed in a few hours by the an
nouncement that a general mobiliza'
ton had been ordered by the French
cabinet.
On August German troops entered
Luxembourg and Germany demanded
free passage through Belgium to the
French frontier. This was refused
and two days later Great Britain dis
patched to Germany an ultimatum de-
manding that the neutrality Of Bel
gium be maintained. The ultimatum
rejected, German forces attacked
Liege. On the same day President
Wilson issued a proclamation Of neu-
trality.
The following day saw the declara-
ton by Great Britain Of state Of war
with Germany, and two days later the
Germans entered Liege, as the French
invaded southern Alsace.
These events were quickly followed
by an affirmation on the part Of Italy
of her neutrality, by an Austrian in
vasion Of Serbia, and by the sending
| by Japan of an ultimatum to Ger
many. This had to do with the Ger
man possession Of Kiao-Chow of
which Tsingtau was the port.
BY August II the first British expe-
dictionary force had completed its land
ing in France and on that day there
began also a fierce battle on the Jadar
between the Austrian and Serbian
troops. Victory was with the Serbian
arms after five days Of fighting and
the Austrians were routed.
In the meantime the battle Of Lor-
raine had opened and the German
troops had entered Brussels, the Bel
A few days later, August %, the
victorious Germans entered Namur
and began an attack on Mons, defend
ed principally by the first British ex-
peditionary forces. The next day the
British troops began a retreat from
their position and from then on until
September IL the German troops
drove through France under the lead
ership Of General Won Kluck. Zeppe-
Inns bombarded Antwerp; the French
were forced TO evacuate Mulhausen:
the Germans took and swept over
Longwy and reached Senlis. thirty
miles from Paris, where the columns
swung to the eastward. The French
government fed to Bordeaux.
In the meanwhile German and Aus
trian troops had met the Russians. A
victory at Krasnik was announced by
the Austrian government on August
90, while on August 20 the German
army under General Won Hindenburg
defeated another Russian force in a
bo ttle at Tanneburp which lasted for