Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-06-29
BULLET THAT
STARTED WAR
FIRED YEAR AGO
June 28 Witnessed Assassination
of Archduke Ferdinand at
Serajeo.
SOME RESULTS OF
CONFLICT TO DATE
German and Austrian Merchant
men Are Driven From the
High Seas.

High Seas.
One year ago today the Aus.
trian Archduke, Francis Ferdinand,
and his wife were shot and kill.
ed in the little Bosnian town Of Sera.
jevo by Garvio Prinzip. It was the
act OF Prinzip. a poor student, which
ultimately resulted in ten nations 60
ing to war. These nations are, on
one hand, Great Britain, France, Rus
sia, Serbia, Japan, Belgium, Italy and
Montenegro, and, one the other, Ger
many, Austria and Turkey. The war
to date, according to conservative es-
timates complied from the best avail
able reports, has caused loss to the
various belligerents of more than six
million men, dead, wounded and pris-
oners, and more than five hundred
ships. OF these about 120 were war
vessels.
Results on Land.
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 possession of Ger
many have been taken by the force
of the Allies.
Italian troops are in possession of
a strip OF Austrian territory.
The outstanding results at sea are
these: -1 t'Tfe
German and Austrian mercantile
shipping has been driven from all the
open seas.
German and Austrian war vessels
having a total displacement of approx
imately 257,O0O tons have been des-
troyed.
Heavy Destruction.
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 off from the rest Of
the world.
Efforts on the part Of the Germans
to place the British Isles in 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 one hundred American
lives prccipitated request upon the
United States that such practices in
50 far as they might menace Ameri.
cans, be stopped.
Tool Of Serbans?
PrinZap's crime was committed on
June %. An investigation disclosed
what was alleged to be proof that the
assassin was the tool Of group of
Serbians. On July %, 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 bor-
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
ordered by the French cabinet.
On August, two German troops en-.
tered Luxembourg and Germany de-
manded free passage through Belgium
to the French frontier. This was re-
fused and two days later Great Bri-
tain dispatched to Germany an ulti.
matum demanding that the neutrality
of Belgium be maintained. The ulti.
matum rejected, German forces at
tackled Liege. On the same day Presi-
dent Wilson issued a proclamation of
neutrality. "
TIC following day saw the declara-
tion by Great britain of a state OF
var With Germany and two days lat
er 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.
vasian 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.
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: THE WEATHER.