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SATURDAY, SEPT. 28, lilt THE BIGGEST NEWSPAPER STORY Exfoifoiltioia of-the IN THE HISTORY OF THE WOULD go (By William G. Shepherd, United Press Staff Correspondent.) London, Aug. 24. (By Mail to New York). What started this war in Europe? Everybody knows thatj millions of men are lined up to kiii each other; that the civilization which Europe has been slowly building up since the dark ages has been thrown to the winds, and that the situation is too hir to either write or talk about, intelligently. It will take a hundred veara for history books to five the news. As General Fred. Funston told rne, just as 1 was hurrying away from Vera Crux for London: "There's only one. bigger newspaper story that could happen on this earth, and that would be another planet approaching ours with an inevitable collision two mwlca distant." What started this biinrest event the world has eever known? The answer is: One little lead bul let from a revolver In the hands of a Servian high school boy. And this bul let nrobablv would never have been lired if an ordinary chauffeur had not lost his wav in a little town in bo nia. One little twist of a chauffeur's wrist, as he turned an automobile in to a side street, when he should have remained on the main road; one high school boy they started this war In Europe. It's hard to find enough to Ray about this one lead bullet. It went into the nead or an arcnauxe as ne rode in his automobile. It sped through chancellories of Europe. It circled about thrones. It entered the bed chambers of the world's kings, emperors or czars and drove sleep from the eyes of statesmen. It sped into millions of homes and brought sorrow and death. Oceans of teari of women and little children tt cre ated. It flew into the bourses and money markets of the world and cut nerves. To understand the situation in Europe before this bullet was fired imagine, if you can, that every item of civilization everything that is srood homes, science, art. music, sur eery, education, culture, peace had all been done up into one huge pack age and hung, by a slender thread over a deep precipice. For years this package has swung this way. The winds of war have often threatened it, but the statesmen of Europe have steadied it and have strengthened the bold and the storm has passed, time after time. And then along speeds this one lead bullet, fired by a high school boy named Gabriel Prinzip. It cuts the rope. The crash will be heard throughout centuries. Where Prinzip is now is a secret. He probably is dead. From the day he was seized by the crowds in the streets of the little town of Serajevo and dragged off to jail, he has been out of sight. Austrian censorship kept back the news; his punishment is a mystery to the courts of Europe. It all happened on Sunday' morning, June 28. King George or England was living in Buckingham Palace, in "London, enjoying the social season. In far away St. Petersburg the Czar of Russia was entertaining Poincare, the president of France. The Em peror of Austria had gone to his sum mer home for his vacation. Emper or William of Germany was playing on his yacht at Kiel. It was play time for the lords of Europe, and they were making the moat of it. But, lords as they were, of various sec tions of mankind, their sight did not reach to that faraway town in Bos nia. Chauffeurs and high school boys don't often topple thrones and ihere ate so man? of them and they are so common that they cannot all be watched. But it would have well paid these lords of creation and it would have well paid all humanity this bright Sunday morning to have . . ..! CI I sepi uieir eyes on oerajevo. What's happening there seems amall enough, at first. A little crowd of citizens go down to the depot to see a special train come in; it bears the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, who, if he lives, will some day be emperor of Austria and king of Hun gary. He won't live three hours longer, but the crowds don't know that, neither do the kings and czars and emperors of the world. With the archduke is his wife. They have left their four little children at home in Vienna and have come to Serajovo, a little town in Bosnia, to nay a re gal visit. Europe and all humanity might well keep their eyes glued to the automobile which is to pass through the badly paved streets of Serajevo at 10 o'clock in the morn ing. First, there is a bomb explosion. A typographer has thrown it. It does not nit the automobile; instead it hits the elbow of the archduke. It jfoes off a second Inter in the street, some yards Inshind the royal car. The chauffeur, whose wrong twist of the wrist half an hour later is going to help plunge into the greatest war mankind has ever known, has put on speed and saved the royal pair. Des tiny has decided that it is not at 10:10 in the morning that the archduke shall die, but at 10:40 and that not a typographer's bomb, but a high school boy's hand shall cut the rope from which hangs over the precipice of war the world's civilization and peace. The car speeds on. The arch duke is annoyed. When he reaches the hall, he ssys to the mayor, who has made a speech of welcome. "These speeches are all right, but what about bombs? You say I'm welcome in Serajevo, but they throw bombs at me here. The mayor looked worried, but the job is too small for a mayor. Kings, working all together and all the statesmen of the earth, with the (old of all the world behind them, wont be able to handle the job that the little mayor of Sarajevo Is puck ering his brows about. He tele phones to the police to renew their vigilance. What can the little police force of Serajero do in this affair? It is a matter for the greatest armies the world has ever seen to decide. - "III return to the depot by an eut-f-Uie-wsy route," says the archduke, smilinc. He's accustomed to at tempts at assassination; members of his own family have been killed in that way and he thinks a change in his route will outtrick any other at tempt "Go down the Appel quay, along the water front," is the order given to the chauffeur. He's a good chauffeur; only a little while before he has helped save the archduke' life by speeding up at just the right one-millionth of a second. "We want to go to the hospital to see those who were injured in the bomb explosion says the Duke suddenly. The chauf feur doesn't know the town well. He should have continued along the wa ter front. But he makes a mistake. One little turn of his steering wheel and the car is in a side street. "Look, Europe! Look, all human ity! Turn your eyes from the altars of the churches where you are wor shipping this Sunday morning or stop your bunday-honday playing and watch and listen." That s the way an orator or a historian might describe this moment a hundred years from now. Just an ordinary chauffeur has made an ordinary mistake. The side street is roughly paved. The car must go slowly. The street is nar row. Garbier Prinzip stands there, Just as if destiny itself had its hand on the wrist of the auto driver, the car slows up as it nears Prinzip. Here they are, a few feet apart, tne revoi ver and the target. An inexorable fate has brought them together in his side street. The target seems to be only a man, an archduke. But it isn't. . The real target is that slen der thread from which hangs over the precipice of war all that civili zation has gained through centuries of upward struggle. The finger of the high school boy assassin moves less than half an inch. The bullet flies. It enters the archduke's head and kills him. It also killed the peace of Europe, but the kings and czars and emperors of Europe don t know it yet I All of them feel sorry for the little children who are left orphans in the palace at Vienna, bmperor Wil liam of Germany and his wife tele graph to the little children, "We can scarcely And words to express to you, children, how our hearts bleed. To hsve spent such happy hours with you and your parents only two weeks ago and now to think that you are plunged into this immeasurable row." The Emperor didn't know then that million times four children prob ably would be plunged into immeas urable grief before the effect of the flight of that one lead bullet had died away. The bullet which Gabriel Prinzip fired into the brain of the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary on Sunday morning, June 28, shattered the peace of Europe. l think the tiredest. saddest-faced man I ever saw was M. Sasanoff, the premier of Russia, when, in an inter view at Calais, France, on one of the dark days of the Balkan war, he said to me, "I believe we have saved the peace of Europe." But the thing he and other statesmen of Europe pre vented then, has happened now. Prin zip's bullet, itself hit the European powder magazine and set it off. . the bullet fired by Gabriel Pnnzi sor- 1D into the brain of Archduke Ferdinand. of Austria-Hungary, came almost straight from the Servian government itself, insisted the Austro-Hungarians. lwenty-nve days after the assassi nation, Austria-Hungary sent a note of demands to Servia. Servia had countenanced criticism of Austria- Hungary the note declared. It had permitted its newspapers and its peo ple to carry on movements in behalf fo Slavs in Austro-Hungarian dependen cies. It said that the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand had been nlann- ed at the Servian capital. Officers in the Servian, army had helped Gabriel Prinzip, the Servian highschool boy, to get a revolver and ammunition with which to perform the deed. Servian government officials along the border had helped Prinzip to cross into Bos nia on his journey to Serajevo. Austria-Hungary demanded that Servia, within 48 hours, must print in the of ficial Servian paper, these exact words: "The royal government of Servia condemns the propaganda against Austria-Hungary from some of her dependencies." The note also demanded that Servia must curb its free press and its speech in order to stop criticism of Austria Hungary and it must change its sys tem of education so that, in the schools nothing should be taught the children thnt would cause them to hate Austria-Hungary. Servia must ulso dis charge from its army certain officers whom the Austro-Hungarians would name and who had spoken too freely in regard to the crimo of June 28. Servia was given forty-eight hours in which to comply with all of these demands. Prinzip's bullet has been flying 26 days toward its target. It will soon cut the string which holds Euro pean livilization hanging over the pre cipice of war. It will soo n reach the powder magazine over which Europe has been resting these many years. It will soon reach the heart of peace and kill her. That same night, the night of July 23. the statesmen of Russia, in dis tant St. Petersburg, received a cable gram from Servia. "Help;" it said. The Russian satesmen talked for four hours about it in the country home of M. Goremykin. They reach ed some decision, secretly. At 7 o'clock in the evening they dashed off in their automobiles to their various offices, each man to do his own work in connection with what was at hand. . By this time the armies of Europe were mobilising. Servia'a forty-eight hours were up on July 26 at 6 in the evening. 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KIWSTOW GARAGE, Inc. iMHMOaMl German army was moving toward a revolver and went there." Russia and in a dozen different direc- But what he said or thought matters tions. j little now. Europe is not fiehtinir he- Prinzip's bullet had reached its tar get It had struck the mine under Eu rope and this mine will probably kill a million men and create more havoc than anything else that has ever hap pened to humanity. What Prinzip really said or thought after he committed the assassination, is not known publicly. The Servian government,' in a note, said that he said:: x "I was not influenced by any other person or persons. . The reading of an archistic literature made me believe that there could be nothing finer in the wcrld than to be an assassin. When in Belgrade I read that the Archduke wa going to Serajevo and s6 I bought cause Prinzip was a murderer, but be cause the long and ancient quarrel for "a place in the sun," a place for each nation to put its feet in the crowded land has suddenly been turned a con test of words and diplomacy into com bat on the battlefields. Some jolt would have set off the Eu ropean mine, some time. -...- - It just happened that Prinzip's bul let did it. METHODIST CELEBRATION. Hartford, Conn, Sept. 26 Metho dists of Connecticut today celebrated the anniversary of the founding of Methodism in this state at St-aftcrd in 1789. . APPLICATION FOR PARDON OF C. R. SANDLIN Application will be made to the Governor of North Carolina for the pardon of C. R. Sandlin, convicted at the May term of the Superior, Court cf Lenoir county for the crime of sell ing whisky and sentenced to the roads of said county '' for a term of six months. All persons who oppose the grant ing of said pardon are invited to for ward their protests to the -Governor without delay, - v - . s ' This the 24th day of September, 1914. J. A. POWERS,", His Attorney; -- Constipation Ut AimmimM. ft lea Sm tm i Ummmtm, tmr, ImdifUmm. Filee. Hmk Htehtka. P.hi.ia eraCMe am 4 tm rear KMawre LHve Mitaysae aware Dr, Kinrt'c NewLifeFills ah n i.LM 9 SATISFACTION OH MONTY C MLEY KiMEY Pilr-.
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