The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-07-03
THE TRAGEDY THAT LED 70 THE EUROPEAN WAR
Shooting OF Arch-Duke of Austria and Wife Occurred
June 49, 1914

handing that the neutrality of Bel.
GUM be maintained. The ultimatum
rejected, German forces attacked
Liege. On the same day President
Wilson issued proclamation of neu.
trality.
The following day saw the declara.
ton by Great Britain of a 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.
vasion of Serbia and by the sending
by Japan of an ultimatum to Germany,
This had to do with the German DOS.
session of Kiao- Chow, of which Using.
Tau was the port.
British Land August IL.
BY August II the first British expe.
dictionary force had completed its 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
gian capital.
A few days later, August %, the
victorious Germans entered Namu1
and began an attack on Mons, defend
ed principally by the first British ex
peditionary force. The next day the
British troops began a retreat from
their position and from then on until
Sept. 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 Long
wy and reached Senlis, 30 miles from
Paris, where the columns swung to the
eastward. The French government
fled to Bordeaux.
In the meanwhile German and Aus
trian troops had met the Russians. A
victory at Krasnik was announced by
the Austrian government on August
%, while on August 20 the German
army under General Won Hindenburg
defeated another Russian force in q
battle at Tanneburg, which lasted
three days. Louvain was burned by
the Germans on the same day that the
Japanese blockade of Tsing-Tau was
begun. The blockade was maintained
more than two months before Using
Tau surrendered.
The Battle Of the Marine.
Two days after the French govern
ment moved to Bordeaux the battle OF
the Marine was begun; a few hours be
fore Russian troops succeeded in oc
cupying Lemberg, the capital of Ga
licia.
Before the French and British
troops, the Germans in France were
forced to retreat as far as the Aisne
Events of the next few days included
the bombardment Of Rheims by the
Germans. and the sinking by German
submarine of the British cruisers
Aboukir. Greasy and Hogue. On the
same day the Russian troops attacked
Przemysl and took Jeroslav.
British troops from India were land
ed from transports at Marseilles or
September rs and were Immediately
dispatched northward. Before their ar
rival at their destination the Germanl
had inaugurated a siege Of Antwerp
which resulted in the Belgian govern
ment moving from that city to Ostend
Two days later the! bombardment Of
Antwerp began. The Belgian govern
ment remained at -Ostend for about {
week and then removed to Havre
France. Forty.eight hours later thu
Germans captured Ostend. Meanwhile
the Allied forces occupied Yprss. and
desperate battle Ina begun On the
Vistula river. GsrHa1 assaults upon