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^ ? w-7 r ? 1 i i i i i ? ? YEAR ago war flame was STARTED IN BOSNIA ? V, '? : ' man and Austrian mercantile iIhk lias been driven from all the ?1W. rrnaii and Austrian war vessels, if a total displacement of approxi ly 257,(XK) tons, have beeli de F?r vessels of the allied nations teg a total displacement oftopprox IriHW.WM) tons, have been sent "ttr tottom. , f Student Slow the Archduke and Hi* frf#? Review of the War y One Year at Compiled , Charleston Evening Pott. }f$r ft'* ~Hl lho ju Arcllduke. J-'nincrlH FcrdhiniKl Wcre sh??t mid killed in Ionian t</wn of Herajevo by Priuxip. It was the act of ? j *x>r student, which ultt reaulM hi eleven natloiiH going r The** nation*' are, on one (jrwt Hritaln, France, UiimhIii, japan, Belgium, Italy and jpjero. and. on the other, <?'er Auatrltt and Turkey. The war j, iccordlnir to conservative esti ctHni>ile<l from the heat available has caused a loss to the vari ?tHgwents of more than sir mil pgfn, <toad. ' wounded and prison* I more than fttio ships. Of these, ( 12U were war vessels. > outstanding results oil land are greater portion of Belgium Jy IfcrtJu control of (iermauy. any lias heen driven from the Kurt. i part of the l>ardanellos is in the on of the allied troops. nw of France and Russia are in ?ion of (ierman troop?, t #ril* of Alsace has l?een taken ilteruiany. )b the continent of Africa parts of orial possessions have been 16st rides. jh island possessions of CJer 'bave l>een tak?>n hy the forces of ?If iii troops: are in possession of a i of Austrian territory. outstanding results at sea are The greater portions of the tier man and allied fletts in tly? North mm re muli i ihtuct ? j** W*e*t?t for communication through Holland and the Scandinavian nations, (tor many is cut off from (tio text of the world, v Kfforts on the part of the Germans to^place the British Isles in a similar predicament haw resulted In the Sink ing by submarines of hundreds of ves sels tiylng the Dags of the allied and neutral nations. j The sinking In this manner of the Cnnard liner I -usltanla with the lo^s of more thtyii 100 American lives pre cipitated a request upon the part of the United States that such practices insofar as the might menace Ameri cans, be stopped. War Mann s Up rrinzip's crime was committed on June 28. An Investigation disclosed what was alleged to Im? proof that the assassin was the tool of a group of( Serbians. On July 2:i,_ after consider- . able correspondence and negotiations, an ultimatum was s*Mit to Serbia by the Austro-liungarlan government, which Serbia declined to meet. A week idter a general mobilization of Russian ' troops along the (ierman bonier was-' ordered and the following day Germany j declared war on Russia. The news of that eveut was followed in a few hours by the announcement that a general ( mobilization had been ordered fTy the French cabinet. On August 2, G?rman troops entered ' Luxemburg and Germany demanded , free passage through Belgium to the , French frontier. This was refused ami two days later Great Britain dispatch- ( eu to Germany an ultimatum .demand ing that' the neutrality of Belgium be | maintained. The ultimatum rejected, German forces attacked Liege. On the same day President Wilson Issued a proclamation of neutrality. The following day saw the declara tion by Great Britain of a state of war with Germany, and two days later the Germans entered Liege as the French Invaded southern Alsace. . These events were quickly followed ( by an affirmation on the part of Italy,( for her neutrality, by an Austrian in vasion of Serbia and by the sending by Japan of ah ultimatum to Germany. This had to do with the German pos wsattsir of KtaQ-cnovr ofwin^tr Tsrajr; : tau was the i>ort. V ? 7' ? ' ? {?<?? r s ?' * < ? j>.iyi|ni. m " ? J. l"l'.' . !?."? Hy August 17 the flint British *x|?e dltlonary force had completed Its laud Ing In Fraiwv hihI OU that day tber? l>o kmii also tt Hor?t* buttle ?'?? the Jadar I ctweeh tlw, Austria it and Serbian troops, Victory won with the Serbian arms after live days of fighting and the Austrian* were routed. In Jhe meanwhile the battle of Lor ru iiu* ha<i opened and the O^riBan I roojw had entered Brussels, flu* Bel gian <apltal. A few day* later, August 28, the vic torious < a(>r ina iim entered Xaiuur and liegan an attack oil Moiix, defended principally l?y the flrnt British expedi tionary force, T1k? next day the lirlt isli troops l>egan a retreat from their l*oaltloi) and from then on until Swj. teinher 12 the German troops drove through France under the leadership of Ceneral von Ivluck. Zeppelins bom barded Antwerp; the French worn forced to evacuate Mulhaven; the Ger niaiis took and swept over Longwy and reached .Sends, .'M> miles from Paris, where {lie columns swung to the east ward. Tlic French government tied to Bordeaux. In the meanwhile German and Aus trian troops had met the Russians. A victory at Krasnick was announced by the Austrian government on August 2tt while on August 29 the (jermau army under General von llludenhurg defeat ed another Russian force In a battle a? Tannchurg, which lasted three days. Ixwvaln was burned by the Germans on the same day that the Japanese blockade of Tslngtau was begun. The blockade was maintained more than two months before Tslngtau surrend ered. At the Marne Two days after the French govern meat moved to Bordeaux the battle of the Marne was begun, a few hours be fore Russian troops succeeded In occu pying Lemberg, the capital of Oallcla. Before the French aud British troops the Germans in France were forced to retreat as far as the Alane. Events of the next few days included the bom bardment of Rheiia* by the Germans, and the sinking by a German subma rine of the British cruisers, Abouklr, Creasy and Hogue. On the same day the Itusalan troops attacked Preemysl and took Jaroslav. British troops from India were laud ed from transports at Marseilles on September 20. and were immediately dispatched to the northward. 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I m >i ii I iji 1 1 ( meut of Autwof|> began. The. Belgian government i cina hud at Ohtend for about h week and then removed to i'i.iui !?. jfyrtj eight bourt lit ??r tla- Germans captured osjend. Meanwhile I la* allied troops occupied Yprea, aial a des|>eratc |?h 1 1 It* had be UWh iai I In* Vistula fiver. !#? xaults upon tla* allied lines between Ypres a ait Nleuinnt continued far a week uial l hen w.-akeiu-d. ' The German* operating in Russia meantime lja<l Im-cii defeated after a ten ? i : i > battle before Warsaw. Ii) Africa revolt dud mutiny broke ? ail. These disorder* were headed by the Boer lea tier, General tie Wet, (leu oral Beyers, Colonel Marlts aial oth er*. Colonel Marltx wus driven from Cai?e Colony, Ceneral Beyers wtH killed at Vaal river, and Geucral de Wet wus captured after be had been In the field for tuore than a mrtnth. Native troops In tla* African province* belonging to Germany, Great Britain and France were lined up on the borders of the rcspoctive provinces. Fighting was general. During the hitter part of October the British dreadnought Audacious was sunk off the Irish coast, the Russians successfully attacked I?ods and Radom,. driving dut the Invading Germaus. Turkey joined the war at that ..Juncture hy naval operations in the Black sea. Odessa was attacked. Naval Operations November oj>ened with a German naval victory over a British squadron off the coast of Chile and the Turkish warships bombarded Hebastapol. Two days later German warships ventured from their anchorage behind the naval base at Heligoland and bombarded the 'British coast in the vicinity of Yar mouth. On November G, Great Britain and /France declared war on Turkey and the forts guarding the entrance to the Dardanelles were bombarded by a fleet of allied English and French worships. On the north the. Russians reoccupled Jaroslav after several days of ferocious flghtlug. . German cruisers which bad been sta tioned In foreign waters at the open ing of the war had by that time given a good accouut of themselves The lCtfaden operating in the Indian ocean and adjacent waters overtook and sunk more than a score of mercantile ships belonging to the nations allied against Germany before she was Anally run down and destroyed off Cocoa Island. ' 111 -the AtTffline Ihe ^aTISTmie ftiurii ftuirtber of auxiliary CrulseVs, perform ed -similar duties, They top sent to tilt! bottom more than tt score of shli>s. Terrific Fighting. (Mr land the nrmiesofr the- be+Jiger ents" settled down to hold their jhjmI troni Jaf 'thft winter months. Activi ties from November- 11, when the Ger man forces captured Dlxmude, result ed in Russian defeats at Vlotslavek, l-opno and Kutno. The battle in Flan ders progressed nt intervals, vigorous actions, taking place and thousands of men <011 both sides being killed or wounded. Intrenched for the winter, the armies contented themselves prin cipally., with holding the position* .they had gained, lu the Serblau-Austrlan' c impaign there was considerable activ ity during the early winter months. Tho Austrians occupied Belgrade, the Serbian capital on December 2, and retained it until December 15, when, af tci the .Serbians had captured larpe forces of AustrJaus, they were driven back infeo their own territory. In East Prussia during the winter there was severe fighting, resulting in the Joss of many men, dead, wounded and captured. The German armies <>i? Mating in East Prussia held off and1 dispatched a Russian army of vaj<t pro portions, finally driving it hack well into its own territory. On tlie sen, ft British, squadron sig nally defeated the German squadron which was victorious off Chile. This ( ngagement . took place off the Falk land Islands. German cruisers bom barded Hartlepool and Scarborough, and the. German nrmotfed cruiser Blue cher tra* "sunk In the NtfrTIT sea "BjTa section of the British fleet operating there. _ German submarines became es? 1 peclally . active during . the winter months, sinking many warshli>s and merchantmen, March opened with an announcement of British reprisal measures against tl.evGerpiaii8 for the submarine war fare and the development of battle in 'France. . ? British troopsr in France again lx? eame active!, making a notable advance at Neuve Chapelle. By the end of March the Russian1 troops had pene> t rated the Dulka Pass and "entered Hungary. April saw the beginning of violent assaults upon the German lines by the French eaBt of Verdun and the Meuse. -The French stormed the Ger^ man nnfittlon At Lpa Sparges and ?> t?s>UL the same time It was officially an nounced that tho total of British cas ualties to that date were 180347. By the middle of April the Russia ne had penetrated Hungary to a point 20 mile# over the border, and the Germans hnd begun a successful aesaolt upon the "nm ??** tpr4'~ ?r#r week* the artnle* HtruKuhnl back ami forth losing thousand* of men, kiiIuIuk H i ound <>n?- da \ it i M I 1*111* foriwl to . \.i.-nato Ilu-lt portions tl>?' m\t lit tialh-la during the tlrst three day* of May the (ieriuau- Austrian' force* broke through the ltu*slau lines ami form! a irtrnu. Fifty lllOUMUUl prtooUera. il wax wi'iv taken. The l.usltanla Hunk. Around Yprcs the Hrltlsh forces lost ground aiul were dually forit?<l to eviie uate au esjieelKlly strong position they had gained at an elevation designated i.s hill N'u. do. simultaneously the lluxslans began a retreat from the t'arpathlan pusses ami whtle this was tn progress the Cuiuird liner laisltunla hound from Now York to Liverpool, \m?s scut to the Ixtttoiu by a torpedo tired by a (ieriuan tfuhiuarlnc. Approx imately 1,200 liven were lost In the dis aster. The loss of Americans In the Lusl t a ula and other vessels which were vic tims of (jermttny'H submarine warfare resulted ill Pren|(l0nt Wilson protest lug against a continuance of such tac tics. on May S9w Italy lllclinKl war on | Austria Hungary after having deivpuiwv (Ml early In the month the triple al llnncc treaty. 'rh?> declaration of war was quickly followed by raids njx?n the Kalian coast cities by Austrian aero planes. The Italian artuy struck across the border Into Austria with Trlest and Trent as objectives. During all this time the allied war ship* In the Dardanelles had been keeping up praetleally a continuous bombardment of the short forts. Nu-. merous warships of different types were sunk. Transports were hurried to tfie scene and troop? were lauded. On June 3 the Austro-fierman forces reoccupled Przertiysl. I mii in- .Tune the Serbians lnaugu- , rated a campaign to secure a seaport on tile Adriatic. Troops were sent across jtlie border Into Albania, with the seaport of Durazzo as an objec tive. Montenegro also dispatched troops into Albania, an Indeiiendent nation recognhsed by the chief powers at the close of the second Balkan war. Dirigible airships and aeroplanes made numerous raids during the win-1 ter and spring. London and Warsaw were the objective of a number of trips made by Zeppelin airships, while Paris was visited by hostile aeroplanes. French and British aircraft attacked various points in Germany, dropping explosive and fire bombs. FIRST WEEK JURORS S. H. Waters, Cassqtt $ ,W. E. Davis, Bethuue , P. M. Catoe, Westville ? ? M. H. Pate, Lucknow ? C. W. Hendrlx. Oamdeu O. K. McCaskiil. Camden ~" J. F. RoterterCffBSfttt J t? L. B. Ogburn, Westville W. T. Smith, Camden C. E. Watts, Cantey T. H. Young* Kershaw R. W. Ray, Kershaw Li. x. Rorusby, Oantey Q. O. SowelT, Kershaw M. J. Fletcher, Kershaw I L. S. Horton, Kershaw . ' ' ? ' U T. H. Muwi, Camden >? - ? " J. S. 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A., Wilmington, OIUWTK TO PK1ZK COURT. \Vvv~Note to (ierituut (iovwumwit on s 11 1 ?.!?*?? I of Kryi* C& Washington. .1 line -H, My agivcmrnt Kit Ii the (Jermah Foreign Otttce | lit* ft ute !>eparnuent made public tonlKld ll*' I ?? X ? of the note HOUt oil JUIH? Hi by tile United States asking (leruiany l?> reconsider her refusal to by direct diplomatic negotiations instead i)f by prise court proceedings, the claim presented on hchalf of t li?* rap , tain and owner* of I hi' American ship William I1. l''rye, suuk with her cargo r?f wheat by the commerce raider l'rln/. Kllel Fried rich. Ambassador (ierard cahlud that he had delivered the note last Saturday afternoon. Tli? 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