The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1917-07-06
How The War Started
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UNITED States has not yet been indicteS
i Wait and see. Sooner or later lie wi
call Cod TO witness that it was all du
to Mr.. Wilson's pryomania. Yet. odd
lenough. none OF the defendants doclar
ed war on Serbia.
The declaration. prearranged betwee
the WilheiInstrasse and the Ballplati
lhad. for nominal basis, Austria's bor
ror at the murder of her Archdukt
| throughout history Austria has bee
in the rogues' gallery. The horror wa
a mask.
| In the Prussian Diet Liebknecht toll
| the truth about it-not all the truth
but as much as lie could. II was yer,
Iinjudicious OF him In Hunland truth i
diagnosed as a form of hydrophobia 10
(which the only Pasteur Institute is jail
Liebknccht went TO prison, but not be
fore he had urged that history be cor
rectly taught and children learn tina
| the Archduke's assassination was hail
ed in high quarters as a gift Of thu
gods.
A gift OF the Kaiser's he might hav,
said, and probably would have had hi
not been gagged Anyway, the fact;
suffice Franz Ferdinand was next ir
line for the throne OF the palvglot poly,
archy which Austria is. Thoroughly de
tested in Vienna; profoundly distrusted
in Berlin, he was a man with ideas
poor. perhaps, but his own, who very
operatically. had married Bohemian
girl The young woman was Hoffahig
but not royal. Concerning the couple
tho old Satran the. forTpar Ethuernr ha,i
only one desire. and that was never 10
see them. He declined. therefore. to lift
the lady to the empyrean. NegligentiS
he sent her an empty title or two, but
the imperiaiia> he withheld Conse-
.Quently she could not be Empress. and
over the mummy OF the Tower OF Bah
ell her sons could not reign.
To remedy that there were dark plots
in dumb palaces. For the benefit OF his
heir Franz Ferdinand proposed TO carve
from the mummy a large Slav state, ar
operation which, it is obvious. while
to him would be the re-
verse TO Pan Germanism.
A rumor of Il reached the Kaiser. 1 o
get the lay OF the laud ne and Won Tir-
pitz looked in at the Archduke's rose
gardens in Konopisht There, while Won
Tirpitz monopolized the host, he con
dolod with the hostess. The Bohemian
lady. moved by tho chivalrous sym
pathy of the stainless War Lord. let the
cat out of the bag, after pledging him.
Handuuf Herr. to secrecy
The Kaiser. seeing then what cor
fronted him saw too that any moment
the plan might he realized for at any
the old Emperor might con
cmde 10 die. In considering that he
also the second line, the
present incumbent Karl /,
There was young man with no
IDEAS however poor 1t would be mi
raclous If he did have any His father
was cracked. so was his grandfather
and his wife is one of I children, OF
whom several are !mbeci!e Sfe, too.
comes of fine, old family. and to-
sether they form an ideal couple, who
ose no time in thought.
The charm Of that appealed to Kali
ser Bill. At once this thug turned.I
snitch For the Archdukes projecr
were indicated Better al
leir apparent should perish than thai
Fan Cermanism be blocked. From those
'ose gardens the AItful Dodger sent
ron Tirpitz to the Ballplatz and then
vent UP to his yacnt. while the art
ess lady and her Ar3hduke went down
o death
Meanwhile, in the Wilhelmstrasse,
rom which the Ballpletz takes it's or
lers, long since the burglary of the |
vorld had been prepared. At the time |
serbia, the key to the East barred the |
way. But better nation should perish |
han that thugs be baked. Then, too |
the day" was dawning, The police.
nsuspicious, unprepared. were asleep.
he change might come again, yet new
r perhaps so propitiously. None the
sss, precautions were necessary To
lsurc a proper hit him again enthu-
lasm a fight must be so staged that
he other party will appear to have
revoked ii. That was Bismarck's stage
aft, to which Bernhard has since, and
cry badly, played the flute.
At this juncture Franz Ferdinand,
acating the rose gardens. went down
his death, and Austria in feigned
orror, flung an ultimatum at serbia,
hich she denounced as nation OF as
lssins. II
Apparently in that Pronunciation were
e cards face up AMI on the table The
an in the subway, II he troubled to
ok, thought it square deal. But the ]
rds had been stacked. :
Franz Ferdinand was done for in
trajero. which is in Bosnia, and Bos-
a. theswag of an earlier burglary. Is
lstrian territory-that is to say, Ger
an. on arriving no military escort
rs provided for him. the police had
Ell called off and the double murder
Is accomplished by the son Of the To-
chief of the austrian Secret Ser
7e. The Governor of Sarajero, who
d sent the police about their bust
SIS, was shortly rewarded. He was
zen command of the Bosnian troops
It Nemesis was cycling him He went
ID
on Potsdam and the Hof !
rig there descended that joy Of which
bknecht told. Two birds had been /.
led by one bomb. The Archduke was
{ Of the way. He had been slaugh-
ed in Bosnia. Bosnia is peopled with
RIBS. and nothing could be more ra-
nal thar to charge Serbia with the
me and then proceed to lay her out,
The ultiria:um followed. Previously
len Austria haRged Bosnia and foe
cd measure, Herzegovina also Rus ,
. then exhausted by Japan, omitted
raise a finger, In Berlin and there .