_Roland G. Usher_
IX. THE FALKLAND SEA FIGHT 142
_A. N. Hilditch_
X. CRUISE OF THE EMDEN 176
_Captain Muecke_
XI. CAPTURE OF TSING-TAO 198
_A. N. Hilditch_
XII. GALLIPOLI 221
_A. John Gallishaw_
XIII. GAS: SECOND BATTLE OF YPRES 240
_Colonel E. D. Swinton_
XIV. THE CANADIANS AT YPRES 248
_By the Canadian Record Officer_
XV. SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA 277
_Judicial Decision by Judge J. M. Mayer_
XVI. MOUNTAIN WARFARE 313
_Howard C. Felton_
XVII. THE GREAT CHAMPAGNE OFFENSIVE OF 1915 322
_Official Account of the French Headquarters Staff_
XVIII. THE TRAGEDY OF EDITH CAVELL 348
_Brand Whitlock_
XIX. GALLIPOLI ABANDONED 366
_General Sir Charles C. Monro_
XX. THE DEATH-SHIP IN THE SKY 375
_Perriton Maxwell_
WHAT CAUSED THE WAR
BARON BEYENS
The National Review, June, 1916.
I
[Sidenote: Political designs of Francis Ferdinand.]
The Archduke Francis Ferdinand will go down to posterity without having
yielded up his secret. Great political designs have been ascribed to
him, mainly on the strength of his friendship with William II. What do
we really know about him? He was strong-willed and obstinate, very
Clerical, very Austrian, disliking the Hungarians to such an extent that
he kept their statesmen at arm's-length, and having no love for Italy.
He has been credited with sympathies towards the Slav elements of the
Empire; it has been asserted that he dreamt of setting up, in place of
the dual monarchy, a "triune State," in which the third factor would
have been made up for the most part of Slav provinces carved out of the
Kingdom of St. Stephen. Immediately after he had been murdered, the
_Vossische Zeitung_ refuted this theory with arguments which seemed to
me thoroughly sound.
The Archduke, said the Berlin newspaper, was too keen-witted not to see
that he would thus be creating two rivals for Austria instead of one,
and that the Serb populations would come within the orbit of Belgrade
rather than of Vienna. Serbia would become the Piedmont of the Balkans;
she would draw to herself
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