Imperial Valley press., 1927-07-29
By c. P. WILLIAMSON
United Press Staff Correspondent

tODlIco 1IcoS SIdll SoiIcSpOileIlG1
LONDON, July 29.-Thirteen
wears ago today a she'll whistled
into the center of the terrified ciI,'
-cf Belgrade. 1t was the Austrian
umpire answer to Serbia 5 plea
for peace.
Little did the happy young Aust
ian officer vino pulled the lanyard
Of the gun that sent the shell into
he city, realize that it would throw
he entire bloodthirsty continent of
Europe into more than four years OF
,iaiserv and starvation.
y month and a day before the
people Of Serbia were awakened to
the realities of war by that shell,
the ArcEduke Franz Ferdinand, heir
10 the throne OF the Austrian En-
rire, was assassinatcd nv a Serb II
the little village of Sarajevo, within
the Serbian kingdom.
\ few days later the Austrian
minister at Belgrade delivered an
ultimatum to the Serbian govera-
,rent. Forty eight hours were given
for Il reply. The reply was made
within the specified time, Serbia
conceding to all Of Austria S de
Eands except two. At The end pt
the reply was appended Il plea for
peace and arbitration in the event
the reply WAS found unsatisfactory.
That single shell was the ignition
Of the spark which cost humanity
the following:
9,9SS,77l known dead;
2,99l,S00 presumed dead;
6,293,51 seriously injured;
l4,002,039 otherwise wounded;
$3.50 ,333 ,637 ,097 direct cost Of the
war;
100000 property loss of
the war;
$33, ,55l ,276,2s capitalized value
of the loss of life.
Hundreds of hospitals throughout
Europe stand today as the only con
vincing monuments TO the human
wrecks Of those four years from
1914 to 1918, which they house. In
these refugees for the tens of thous-
ards of insane, manned, incurab!c
md broken pieces of humanity there
was no celebration today.
New War Coming
In the foreign offices and war
and naval establishments OF virtu-
ally every country in Europe there
are few who today VIII 50 much as
give thought to what happened
b years ago, for Europe is silently
and secretly, yet RAPIDLY sharpen
ing its knife for tn" next draw of
human blood.
With thousands of homes still
mourning a father, son or broth
er whose life was lost in the last
war, with all nations using all pos
sible efforts to have the materia!
debts of the last war cancelled,
each is waiting for the first op.
portunity to exercise the lust 10
AIIl.
Among the talking nations,
Great Britain, the mainstay of the
| League of Nations, the first great
| power to intervene in disputes be
| tween nations, ranks first.
Even the slightest afront on
British dignity in any part of the
world brings TRADE or feeling in
the British papers against the OF
! Tending nation and usually brings
several British warships into the Of
Tending country S principal sea
| port
With aviation interest at its
by said Board; that the whole mum
| ber Of said Board of Trustees is
! five. and that at said meeting said
resolution was passed, adopted and
approved by the following called
vote:
Ayes: Five.
Nayes; (None.)
Absent and Not Voting: (None)
In Witness Whereof, ] have here
unto set my hand as Clerk of said
Board the 18th day Of July, 1927.
r. NJ. BEST,
] Clerk Of the Board Of Trustees Of
! Seelev Union School District.
J July 20 A IL