Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-28
RESULTS OF YEAR
. OF WAR IN EUROPE
Act of Poor Student at Saraievo
Ultimately Throws Eleven
Nations Into Conflict.
LOSSES TO BELLIGERENTS
More Than 100000 Men Dead,
Wounded and Prisoners, and
500 Ships Destroyed.

''''' " ere SnOt ana Rllic0 IN tho little
BOSNIAN town OF Sarajcvo by Garvio
Hrinzi1. II waH the act OF Prinzip a
poor student, which ultimately resulted
IN eleven nations going TO war. These
nations are, on one hand. Great Brit
ain, France. Russia. Serbia, Japan, Bel
Sium, italy and Montenegro, and on
the other. Germany. Austria and Tur-
Key The war to date, according to
conservative estimates compiled from
the best available reports. has caused
loss to the various belligerents Of
more than 100000 men. dead. wounded
| and prisoners. and more than 500 ships
! pf these. about 100 were war vessels
The outstanding results on land arc
these:
The greater portion OF Belgium is
under the control of Germany.
Germany has been driven from the
Far East
4 part of the Dardanelles is in the
possession Of German troops
Portions OF France and Russia are
possession OF the allied troops.
y strip of Alsace has been taken frcrn
Germany.
On the Continent OF Africa parts Of
territorial possessions have been lost
by both sides
Various island possessions OF Ger
OF the allies
Italian troops are in possession of a
strip OF Austrian territory
The outstanding results at sca are
these:
| German and Austrian mercantile
, shipping has been driven from all the
n onen seas.
7 German and Austrian war vessels
having total dis pia cement, Of approx
mateiy $4,000 tons have becn destroyed
War vessels OF the allied nations hav-
Ing total displacement OF approxi-
mately $4,000 tons have been sent to
the bottom.
The greater portions of tho 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 of the
world
HUNDREDS or VESSELS
SUNK Bi SUBMARINES
Efforts on the part of the Germans
10 place the British Isles in similar
~predicamcnt have resulted in the sink
ing by submarines OF hundreds Of ves-
sells flying the flags OF the allied and
neutral nations
The sinking in this manner OF Tho
Cunard liner l.usitan!a. with the loss of
more than loo American lives preci-
pated "A rcques, upon the part of the
United States that such practices. in
so far as they might menace Amcri-
cans. be stopped
Prinzip's crime was committed on
June 2S I'm Investigation disclosed
what was alleged 10 be- proof chat the
assassin was the tool Of n group OF
Serbians. On July 90 after considera-
BILE correspondence and negotiations an
ultimatum was sent TO Serbia bv the
Austro- Hungarian government; which
Serbia declined TO meet \ week later
I "A general mobilization OF Russian troops
along the German border was ordered
and the following day Germany declared
war on Russia. The news OF that event
was followed In few hours by he an
|, nouncement that a general mobiliIa-
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 refused, and two
days later Great Britain dispatched to
Germany an ultmatum demanding that
the neutrality OF Belgium be main
tanned. The ultmatum rejected, Ger
man forces attacked LicGc. On the
same day President Wilson issued n
proclamation of neutrality.
The following day saw the declara-
tion 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
for her neutrality. by an Austrian in
o1iN NJ Corh
japan OF an utimatum to Germanv
This had to do with the German posses.
sion Of Kiachau. of which Tsingchau
was the port.
FIRST BRITISH FORCE
LANDS IN FRANCE
BY August II the FIRST British eype-
dictionary force had completed it's 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 meanwhile, the battle OF Lor-
raine had opened and the German
troops had entered Brussels, the Bel
CLAN capital.
A few days later. August 80. the vic
torious Germans entered Namur. and
began an attack on Mons, defended
principally by the first British expedi-
tionary force. The next day the Brit
ish troops began a retreat from their
position, and from then on until Sep
tember IL the German troops drove
through France under the leadership
OF General Won Kluck Zeppelins bonn
barded Antwerp; the French were
forced to evacuate Mulhausen; the.
Germans took and swept over Longwy