The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-28

Austrian Archduke, Francis Ferdt- nand, and his wife were shot and kill | ed in the little Bosnian town of Sera- l jevo by Garvio Prinzip. It was the act of Prinzip, g. poor student, which 1 ultimately resulted in eleven nations going to war. These nations are, on one hand, Great Britain, France, Rus 1 sia, Serbia, Japan, Belgium Italy and Montenegro, and on the other Ger many Austria and Turkey. The war to date, according to conservative es- inmates compiled from the best avail able reports, has caused loss to the I various bel1igerents of more than six million men, dead, wounded and pri- soners, and more than five hundred ships Of these about 12O 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 DardaneIles is in the possession of the Allied troops.
 Portions of France and Russia are 1 in the possession of German troops. 1 A strip of Alsace has been taken l On the continent of Africa, parts of 1 territorial possessions have been lost by both sides.
 Various island possessions of Ger | 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- proximate1y 257.6oo tons have been 1 destroyed
 War vessels of the Allied nations having a total displacement of ap= proximateIy 192,0oo 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 connupication through Holland and the Scandinavian nations, Germany is cut off from the rest of the world.
 Efforts on the part of the Germans l to place the British Isles in a, similar predicament has resulted n the sink ing by submarines of hundreds of ves- se1s flying the flags of the Allied and l neutral nations.
 The sinking in this manner of the Cunard liner Lusitania, with the loss | of more than one hundred American l lives precipitated a request upou the part of the United States that such practices insofar as they might men ace Americans, be stopped. -
 Prinzip's crime was committed on June 28. An investigation disclosed what was alleged to be proof that the assassin was the tool of a group of ] Serbians. On July 23, after consid- erab1e correspondence and negotia- tions ultimatun was sent to Serbia ! by the Austro-Hdngarian government which Serbia declined to meet. A week later a general mobilization of i 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 a few hours by the announcement 1 that a, general mobilization had been I ordered by the French Cabinet.
 On August 2 German troops, enter ed Luxembourg and Germany de- manded free passage through Bel i gium to the French frontier. This was refused and two days later Great | Britain dispatched to Germany an ultimatum demanding that the neu- I trahty of Belgium be maintained. l The ultimatum rejected, German forces attacked Liege. On the same day President Wilson issued a proc lanat1on of neutrality.
 The following day saw the dec1ar- atfon by Great Britain of a, state of war with Germany, and two days later the Germans entereda Lege the French invaded southern Alsace.
 These events were quickly followed by an affirmation on the part of Italy for her neutrality, by an Austrian invasion of Serbia and by the sending by Japan of an ultinatum to Ger many. This had to do with the Ger l man possession of Kiao-Chow of which Tsingtau was the port.
 By August IT the first British ex- pedittonary force had completed it's landing in France and on that day 1 there began also a free battle on the Jadar between the Austrian and Ser oian troops. Victory was with the Serbia, arms after five days of fight ing and the Austrians were routed.
 In the meanwhile the battle of Lorraine had opened and the German troops had entered Brussels, the Bel gian capital
 A few days later. August 2S, the victorious Germans entered Namur and began an attack on Mons, de- tended principally by the first British expedftfonary force. The next day the British troops began retreat from their position and from then on l until September 12 the German troops l drove through France under the leadership of General von Kfuck. Zeppelfns bombarded Antwerp; the French were forced to evacuate Mu1- hausen; the Germans took and swept | over Longwy and reached Sanlis, thirty miles from Paris, where the columns swung to the eastward. The I French government fled to Bordeaux.
 In the meanwhile German and Austrian troops had met the Russians. l A victory at KraSnik was announced by the Austrian government on Aug l 23 while on August 29 the German | army under General von Hindenburg defeated another Russian force in a | battle at Tanneburg, which lasted three days. Louvain was burned by l the Germans on the same day that 1 the Japanese blockade of Tsingtau | was begun. The blockade was main | tained more than two months before | TNsingtau surrendered.
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