The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-29
WORLD WEEPS,
But PLOTS TO
MURDER AGAIN
Shell Fired Is Years Ago
Today Led to Killing
of 1891 300.
BIG PARADE MOVES ON
MiIitarists CIamor and
Leaders Goad Public to
Demand More Blood.
BIG PARADE MOVES ON
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BU CnC6U PTeSS
LONDON, July 29.-Thirteen years
ago today shell whistled into the
. center of the terrified city of Bel
grade. 1t was the Austrian En-
pire's answer to Serbia's plea for
peace.
Little did the happy young Aus
TRAN officer who pulled the Ian
yard of the gun that sent the shell
into the city, realize that it would
throw the entire bloodthirsty CONT
nent Of Europe into more than four
years of misery and starvation.
A month and day before the
people of Serbia were awakened by
that shell, the Archduke Franz
Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the
Austrian Empire, was assaSsinated
by a Serb in the little village of
Sarajevo, within the Serbian king
dom.
The Austrian minister at Belgrade
ian government Serbia conceded
to all of Austria's demands except
two. Then came the shot.
What 1t Cost
That single shell was the ignition
of the spark which cost humanity
the following:
9,998,771 known dead; =
2,991,800 presumed dead;
6.295,512 seriously injured;
100000 otherwise wounded;
$186,333, 637,097 direct cost of the
500 1850, 100000 property loss of the
war;
$33, 1851, 276,260 capitalized value of
the loss of life.
Hundreds O. hospitals throughout
Europe stand today as the ouly 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 thousands
of insane, manned, incurable and
broken pieces of humanity there
was no celebration today.
Knives SQdIpG1Cu Again
In the foreign Offices and war and
naval establishments of virtually
every country in Europe there are
few who today will so much as give
thought to what happened thir-
teen years ago, for Europe is silently
and secretly, yet rapidly sharpening
it's knife Tor the next draw of human
blood
Among the war-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 affront on Brit
ish dignity in any part of the world
brings a TRADE of feeling in the
British papers against the offending
nation and usually brings several
British warships into the offending
country's principal seaport. +.
French Still Ired
During the latter part of last
month the French Premier, Ray
mond Poincare, delivered an address
at Luneville in which he reopened
many of the healing wounds of the
war. Not only did the French Pre-
mier talk of political issues, but he
also pried into the trivial problem
of why the German nation still had
a warship named "Alsace." Poincare
grasped every possible pronounce
ment that has been made by Ger
man Government officials and
others in Berlin to revive issues of
the war. These included what he
claimed was a misinterpretation OF
the Locarno pact by the Germans.
Meanwhile, throughout Soviet
Russia there is continual war talk
and all agencys for information are
being used to~spread war alarms.
Italy is basking in the spotlight
of intervention in the Balkans,
Jugo- Slavia, claiming that Italy has
designs on her neighboring Adriatic
nation, Albania.
Poland has her own worries with
Russia on the north, Germany on
the west, and Lithuania on the
northwest.
Behind all of this maze of bicker-
ings and animosities is the incon-
ceiveable mass of intrigues, super
politics and secret diplomacy which
wrecked more than one kingdom
after the last war and shook not
only the foundations of a single
continent but the entire world.