Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-06-28
GREAT WAR WAS
BROUGHT ON ONE
YEAR AGO TODAY
ARCHDUKE OF AUSTRIA, FRANCIS
FERDINAND, AND HIS WIFE AS
SASSINATED JUNE %, 1914.
ACTS ULTIMATE RESULT WAS TO
PLUNGE u NATIONS INTO HIS
T0RY'S GREATEST WAR.
fI;y Associated Press

duke, Francis Ferdinand. and hi, wife were
shot and killed in the little Bosnian town
Of Serajevo BY Garvio Prinzip. IL was the
act of Prinzip. a poor student. which ulti-
mately resulted ia eleven nations gong To
war. These nations are, on one hand.
Great Britain. France. Russia. Serbia. ia
pan. Belgium. Italy and Montenegro, and.
on the other. Germany, Austria and Tur-
key. The war 10 date. according to con
>ervative estimates compiled from the best
available reports, has caused a loss TO the
various belligerents of more than six mil
lion men, dead. wounded and prisoners.
and more than live hundred ships. OF these
10 were war vessels.
The outstanding results on land are
these:
The greater portion Of Belgium i under
the control Of Germany.
Germany ha~ been driven from the Far
East.
A part Ut the Dardanelle> l. IN the pos
session Of the Allied troops.
Portions of France and Russia are in the
possession of German troops.
\ strip Of Al>ace ha~ been taken from
Germany.
On the continent 81 Africa parts Of ter
%ritorial possessions nave been lost 81 both
sides.
Various island possession Of Germany
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 ship
ping has been driven from al the open
seas.
German aud Austrian war vessels having
"A total displacement Of approximately 257.-
O00 tons have been DESTROYED.
War vessels of the Allied nations having
= total displacement of approximately
1872. 900 tons have been sent 10 the bottom.
The greater portions of the German aud
Allied fleets IN the North Sea remain IN
tact.
Except for communication through Hol-
land and the Scandinavian nations. Ger
many 4, cut of from the rest of the world.
Efforts on the part of the Germans a.
place the British Isles in a similar prcdica-
ment has resulted IN the sinking by sub
marines of hundreds OF vessels flying the
flags Of the Allied and neutral nations.
The sinking IN this manner of the Gun
ard liner Lu>Itania with the los Of more
than one hundred American lives precipi-
A NJ. tai ~ r..ttn- rY..n IL. .4rt ~ 81. I~r.s.l
States that such practices insofar a, they
mi-ht menace Americans, hc stopped.
I'rmzip'> crime was committed on June
>. Nm Investigation disclosed what was
alleged IT, be- proof that the assassin was
the tool Of q group Of Serbians. On July
~. after considerable correspondence and
regulations ~ uItimatum wa> sent to Ser
hir IN The .Au~tro- Hungarian government.
ahlrh Serbia declined Ia meet. A week
later a general mobilization nf Russian
troops along the German border was or
dered and the following day Germany de-
clared war On RUSSIA. The news Of that
event wa~ followed ~ a few hours nv the
announcement that 4 general mobilization
had been ordered ~ the French Cabinet.
On August ,. German troops entered
Luxembourg and Germany demanded free
passage through Belgium to the Frendh
frontier. Thu wi~ refused and two day~.
later Great Britain dispatched 70 Germany
an ultimatum demanding that the neutral
ity Of Belgium b. maintained. The ulti-
maium rejected. German forces attacked
Licye. On the same day President Wilson
issued a proclamation 81 neutrality.
The following day saw the declaration
ny Great Britain ot 4 stage at war with
Germany. and tW" days later the Germans
entered Lirgc a. the French invaded south
ern Al-ace.
These events were quickly followed by an
affirmation un the part Of Italy for her
neutrality. by an Austrian INVASION Of Ser
bia. and bv the sending by Japan Of an
ultimatum ~ Gcmanyr. This had L. 40
with the German possession ~ kiao-Chow
of which T>mgtau was the port.