Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03
MURDER THAT
LED TO THE WAR
Much Has Happened Since
Ferdinand Was Killed.
RESULTS ON LAND AND SEA
FrIahtfuI Results That Have Followed
Assassination OF the Austrian
Arehduke just One Year
Ado,


the Austrian Archduke, Francis Ferdi-
nand. and his wife were shot and
killed in the little Bosnian town of
Serajezo by Garvio Prinzip. 1t was the
act of Prinzip, poor student, which
ultimately resulted in 10 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 con-
servative estimates compiled from the
best available reports, has caused a
loss to the various belligerents of more
than 100000 men, dead, wounded and
prisoners, and more than 500 ships OF
these about 100 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
territorial possessions have been lost
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.
German and Austrian war vessels
having a total displacement of ap-
proximately $4,000 tons have been de-
stroyed.
War vessels Of the Allied nations
having a total displacement of ap-
proximately $4,000 tons have been
sent 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 OF from the rest Of the
world.
Efforts on the part of the Germans
to place the British Isles in a similar
predicament has resulted in the sink
ing by submarines OF hundreds Of YES
sells flying the flags of the Allied and
neutral nations.
The sinking in this manner of the
Cunard liner Lusitania with the loss
of more than 100 American lives
precipitated request upon the part
of the United States that such prac'
tices insofar as they might menace
Americans be stopped.
Ultlmatum To Serbia.
Prinzip's crime was committed or
June 28. An investigation disclosed
what was alleged to be proof that the
assassin was the tool of a group oi
Serbians. On July 20, after consider
agile correspondence and negotiations
an ultimatum was sent to Serbia by
the Austro Hungarian government
which Serbia declined to meet.
week later a general mobilization Of
Russian troops along the German Dor
der was ordered, and the following day
Germany declared war on Russia. The
news Of that event was followed in {
few hours by the announcement that {
general mobilization had been or
dered by the French Cabinet.
On August German troops entered
Luxembourg and Germany demanded
free passage through Belgium to th'
French frontier. This was refused
and two days later Great Britain dis
. patched to Germany an ultimatum de
manding that the neutrality of Be
gium be maintained. The ultimatuI
rejected. German forces attacke
= Liege.
h The following day saw the declarf
r ton by Great Britain of state of wa
j." with Germany, and two days later tn
l. Germans entered Liege as the Frenc
n invaded southern Alsace.
h These events were quickly followe
e by an affirmation on the part Of Ital
f. for her neutrality, by an Austrian ii
n vasion of Serbia, and by the sendin
D. by Japan of an ultimatum to German,
a. This had to do with the German po
Ie session of Kiao-Chow, of which Tsin
tau was the port.