Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-09-29
PEACE IN EUROPE
WAS DISRUPTED
FOUR YEARS AGO
BOSTON PAPER SAYS HISTORIANS
WILL SAY WAR BEGAN ON 18TH
OF SEPTEMBER IN 1911.
SAYS EUROPEAN WAR ACTUALLY
BEGAN WHEN ITALY FLUNG
HERSELF IN AFRICA.

Historians OF The next generation Will
say that The great European War began
.pu Friday afternoon. Seutcmucr ~. 1911
This may sound startling 70 those who
haNt read IVY often that the murder oi
Tie Austrian archdukc al Sarajcyo.. on
June =. 1911, was the spot where the
conlleratiuu started lt started long
before thta fatal sunday.
Italy i> going an ii4hf che Turk aelh
VI ~ Y different Europe which hears TIN.
than the pea cfu! Europe that existed OF
Friday afternoon, Sept. -, 1911, when
suddenly came the news t.at Italy was
about 10 hurl herself into Africa. How
different. and Vet how closely connected
arc these two italian declarations u
Before the outbreak "a the Turco-Ital
war.
ian War. Europe wa, peaceful. Tho tc'
rihic> disease from which She i now >uf
rrriug WAS then only beginning tn gnlv
al her vital> ia the capitals Of the grca'
pof"r>. Leading statesmen and diplo
mats. TIN ~ physicians who In dag
nose Int cannot curc the National dis
ease. recognized the symptoms. The
knew that TIE affection would break ou
within 4 few wears. .All Europe wa
lrmiHg tn the teeth
Germany was making an ally III th
Turk. Won der Colt WAS training IN
D>nan army. The Baedad Eailr ",
would soon lp something more than
mere dream and Sncz would not he III
hnrie-t route tn thr EmIirr NJ he East
The STATESMEN Of England, France ~,
russia saw that under the gui~c IF Pan
irrmIui>m thr balance lf the power
vas changing. and that if sometime
ere NOT dome Immediately the furr.
Hudci TcuIun would hc supreme. AVS
ria. GERMANY and Italy. together with 3
ighlY trained aFnr NJ The greatest
ightcrs III NV world thr Turks and W
i~ratcgic railroad to India. would b.
nrc than n match ir the Triple Him.
cutc.
England. Frame end Russia put their
rld~ together. They wisely runclu ici
. approach lt.ly. since Rome realized
hat i'm the ambitions Of au-ticrmani~m
.uly'- aspirations were ,hr least likely
, ~ realized. They c,nlirivd with those
{ Austria Don thr Nca rl.aSt.
The Allies tuld ItlIF ,itt They Hl M
~ hamper au l~taliju expedition into
'ripoii. a airgr colony iu Northern AZ.
ira hal been th- amhituiH of Italy even
fore Italy was united.
Italy struck ih" haiI lin" u hungry
llnor. Troops were .n thri rwuv i'
nc c'ustautiuoplc p tiMy 90 think of
np-a~ing concession This war -culn-
.i>hrl severn important STROKES iu ono.
urv italian Empire between French
z rocco arI Erellud'~ Egypt meant
Nae tLr Triple Alliance was " thing Oi
hr past. ltlly would far prefer ga
rrak al unpopular alliance sham lose n
ich colony which hal cost her irIrly W.
zen and money. Tine truth nf ,hi> has
.yu proven h1 resent events.
Quick ou thc heels VT ,he Turcn Ital
n War came iha Rllkan struggle. With
hr fine new Turkish ARMY in the Afri
IA desert The diplpar;, 30 The Allies I'D
'lia. Athens nnd Belgrade did u find
tfrh difficulty y upniutiu4 ,ut thr weak.
ned condition Of ,hc Turk.
Backed hE thr encouragement from
ngluntI. France anna Russia. thr Bal.
fH states seized the opportunity o-ca-
tened hv the Turcn Italian War. One
rev ont nf The other .> Y Development ni
far sighted plan.
With ihr outbreak nf the Balkan
| Var. Germany WAS more ,han ever pro
| oIcd. She WAS alarmed IT, save Con
| %tantinuple and break M The united az
| ion Of the Balkan States. diSScnSiol
vaS bred among them. IT,. has ALWAYS
| aeon easy to spread d~i~>cn>irn in IN,
| Balkan Peninsula Opcc disrupted. lik,
Iumpty Dumpty. il was imn0~>ihlc &