Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-23
uENvERY guilty deed" writes the

WaN OF the trnnSgreSSOr iS hard
The contrast with what was proicrted
in The shots fired at Saraicvo Rosuio
on a June day in 1914. when the lives
of the Austrian crown prince Francis
Ferdinand and his morganatic wife. the
Duchess OF llohcnbcrg. we're snufTed
out, and the actual fruition of the daz-
Ellng dream OF Potsdam. which prompted
the most terrible war in history. is the
most tremendous imaginable.
me u'thF"neu monarch and alleged
VI "''"Nr'Ie"re' VINO indeed,
mas Occh GAINED by certain fatuOuS
l,totuSohis'' y OF modern l<ur as of
today n, i,y+,,oti,.. nI nS. ie'' nli''Scn
the murdoro,s NoobotL 5 Vi Nn"I
"vaulting ambition which ornrTnnnn u'tt" =.
self and falls on the otbor
'ri"e foliowed by RetributiOn
Ambition and retribution are two
dominating figures in the bloody kaIei.
doseope that shocked the civilized world
through more than four years, and the
last scene of which. enacted in the sig
nature of treaty. shows Germany pros
trate among the ruins wrought by her
own lnnumerable crimes.
a glance at the terms of peace. viviGly
reveals the punishment that has befallen
the origlnators of n Causeess crime
against humanity. these terms and
',,'ir enec' upon tne late imperial power
Vi germany are brlehy outlined else
where ana second glance at the
eNrn's Oh the war herewith set forth
'ollo"ed criminal enterprise OF hldeous
Propor'lohs ana proved again mat
The mills @. God grind, SLOWLY
oO' ''eS S''"u eN'euD'"S small
war Began IN Murder
Here is the story Of the war in a
nutshell:
1t was on June IS. 1914. that the
heir apparent to the throne of Austria
- anu ms "lic "''' "iu' "c''" 1T
Sorhi,n .trdart
EoorIr a ,rontb Io+or I,I,, % Ans
tr;o Hungary snrt an ,1t;mot,,m to Sor.
hin d.,nnndinc ronorotion in torr,s tbot
M SpIf rrsnocting nation couIt con.
,odo
,,s+,;o IIunoor, I,lr ne follou.cl
r.ith hor conpon Scrhia,s rrotest and
t,a ;rdi,,o,,+ o,,t,.r,. of ;rdionotior fr,r,
oil tho WILD notions axcont Cern,,nv
Tho ,,.o, ,,.n, hoamn
between l"e SaraJeVo ASSASSINATION
anu 'ne uNill.atuiii " oe' uir ioi
"niiau II ol "erlhahS nuu oeeh sum
moncu 10 Norway "hither ne hua
sohe vi piea'uie 'it' nv.
QUESTIONED .hat ne was lullS coshlIun'
Oh austria pio' 10 enloroii Seiol" ;
ana II ~ openly cnurseu 'ha' ne no'
only prompteu Dut colhlliunueu ms ,,
any 10 niuhe MS ueii'anuS o'i 'ne s'il".i
'i III, -I,,,ro 1I,,,;xnn ;r+o kssG,,.,,. :.
ana liter"l'S plunge l.uropc NV :s."' Mnn
nmnrge trinmnbant and splendidly ng.
crord;7od
Month of War Declarations
August 1914. was month OF dec
larations of war. On the first day of
the month Germany declared war on
Russia on the pretext that the Car S
mobilization of his army threatened the
Kaiscr's ally, Austria. Followed on
August 2 n similar declaration against
France. and demand on Belgium to
ncrmit German troops to march
through that country in an attack on
her neigLbor on the west and south.
Belgium, true to her treaty of neutral
itv and to her national spirit. refused
this permission. and straightway the
Kaiser declared war on the little coun
trv that again justified her designation
as the cockpit of Europe"
Italy, although a member OF the
"Dreibund, the other members OF
which were Germany ana ltalF' an
nounced her neutrallty. srchtF 10 Ine
disgust and rage OF herlln auu VI
enna
England takes hahu
England. signatory to the treaty
which guaranteed Belgium neutrality,
demanded that Germany respect that
treaty. but the German Chancellor
termed this sacred obligation ''ScraI
of paper" and refused whcreupon
England, true to her promise, on Au.
gust 4. declared war on Germany.
August 3 Montenegro declared war on
Aus" ID" a.s o,st tLo Corr,or
orn,v occunied Iiege, Belgium. and thu
Grst british troops landed on French
, soil The French took Altkirk, in
Nsace Two DAYS later they took
NnoIhausen. and the same day. August
O Serbia declared war on Germany,
Auorst II German troops entered
France hv way of Luxembourg. and the