The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . ad she confined her U-boatattacks to warships; had she refrained from taking the livesof women and children and of other non-combatant civilians;had she not executed Edith Cavell and Captain Fryatt; hadshe kept her covenant with this country as to submarinewarfare; had she dealt with Russia on the basis of theReichstag resolution of no annexations and no indemni-ties—she might have won the war.^^ 18 Principal Sources : Charles Willis Thompson in The New
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . ad she confined her U-boatattacks to warships; had she refrained from taking the livesof women and children and of other non-combatant civilians;had she not executed Edith Cavell and Captain Fryatt; hadshe kept her covenant with this country as to submarinewarfare; had she dealt with Russia on the basis of theReichstag resolution of no annexations and no indemni-ties—she might have won the war.^^ 18 Principal Sources : Charles Willis Thompson in The New York Times,Amos Kidder Fiske in The New York Journal of Commerce, Morris JastrowsThe War and the Bagdad Railway (J. B. Lippincott Co.), Gen, FrancisVinton Greenes address at W^est Point in 1915, Ellery C. Stowells TheDiplomacy of the War (Houghton, Mifflin Co.), The Popular Science Month! New York Tribune, The New York Evening Post, The New York Times,The New York Sun, The New York Tribune, Bradstreets, Robert F. McCor-micks With the Russian Army (Macmillan Co.). 56 THE OUTBREAK AND THECAUSES Part IAUSTRIA AND SERBIA V. 1—4 57. THE TRAGEDY AT SERAJEVO AND AUSTRIASULTIMATUM TO SERBIA June 28, 1914—July 31, 1914 IMMEDIATELY back of the incidental cause of the WorldWar—that cause being the assassination of the AustrianCrown Prince, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and his wifeat Serajevo, on June 28, 1914—lay the act of Austria in an-nexing in 1908, as an additional province of her empire, theSlavonic States, Bosnia and Herzegovina, an act contrary tothe Berlin Treaty of 1878, w^hich concluded the Russo-Turkishwar. Protests were made by some of the Powers at the time ofthe annexation, but these were disregarded, or , the State most concerned, under pressure that made herpowerless to protest further, directed her minister at Vienna,in March, 1909, to declare that following the councils of thePowers, she bound herself to cease the attitude of protestan
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