WWI Starts

BERLIN, July 24, 1914 (UP) - A world war is threatened.

LONDON, June 29, 1914 (UP) -- Horror at the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, and his wife, was overshadowed here to-day by the fear that the gravest danger to the peace of Europe may be the result of the murders.

VIENNA, June 29, 1914 (UP) - The map of Europe may be altered by two assassins' bullets that yesterday struck down to instant death at Sarajevo, Bosnia, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his morganatic wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg. Gravest fears are entertained here that the octogenarian Emperor, Franz Josef, now en route here from his summer palace at Ischl, cannot recover from this latest of a long series of tragedies that have marked his life.

SARAJEVO, Bosnia, June 29, 1914 (UP) -- Serious rioting by furious mobs occurred on the streets here this afternoon. Scores of Servian business places and dwellings were demolished by pro-Austrian mobs, while preparations were being made to remove the bodies of the assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his consort to Vienna tonight. Police and soldiers charged the rioters ineffectually in several quarters of the city. It is reported that several Servians were killed.

VIENNA, June 29, 1914 (UP) -- The map of Europe may be altered by the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, crown Prince of Austria, and his beautiful wife, the Duchess Sophia of Hohenberg.

BERLIN, July 28, 1914 (UP) -- Kaiser Wilhelm is taking no chances with the crown prince in the war crisis.

VIENNA, July 28, 1914 (UP) -- Military measures and Austria's present course of action as regards Servia cannot be interrupted, pending negotiations looking toward mediation.

BERLIN, July 28, 1914 (UP) -- The kaiser today refused to accept in detail the suggestion for mediation made by Sir Edward Grey, foreign secretary of England. It was understood, however, in official circles this afternoon that Germany still stood ready for a general conversation between the powers over the situation.

LONDON, July 28, 1914 (UP) -- Austria today formally declared war against Servia, according to Vienna dispatches received here.

LONDON, July 28, 1914 (UP) -- A Central News dispatcher from Berlin states that Germany has officially rejected Sir Edward Grey's mediation proposal.

ST. PETERSBURG, July 29, 1914 (UP) -- Word from Servia that an Austrian army has crossed the border, or that Belgrade has been formally occupied, will be immediately followed by an order for mobilization of the Russian army.

LONDON, July 29, 1914 (UP) -- The report from Luxemburg that French troops are being mobilized on the German border aroused intense interest here today, as all experts agree that Alsace-Lorraine, wrested by Germany from France in 1871, is now one of the danger spots of Europe. Many believe that at the first warlike move by Russia, Germany will strike at France.

FRANKFORT, Germany, July 29, 1914 (UP) -- Efforts of the kaiser to localize the Austro-Servian war are being nullified by extensive military movements of Russia, according to a Berlin dispatch published in an extra edition of the Gazette here late today.

BERLIN, July 29, 1914 (UP) -- An extensive movement of German troops toward the Russian frontier was ordered today. The troops, all equipped for field service, moved immediately. Berlin papers were not permitted to print news of the movement. All Saxon troops were today recalled from the field maneuvers.

BERLIN, July 29, 1914 (UP) -- Kaiser Wilhelm's hand today holds back the titanic war which menaces all of Europe.