Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1915 — CAUSED GREAT WORLD WAR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CAUSED GREAT WORLD WAR

This is the first photograph received in this country of Wogo Tankositsch, the man who hatched the plot for the assassination of the crown prince of Austria and his wife, the denouement of which precipitated the present world war in Europe. Austria named Tankositsch in her ultimaturn to Serbia, and peremptorily demanded his extradition to face a trial on the charge of murder —it was this ultimatum that Serbia acceded to in all its clauses except the trial of Serbian officers in Austria, among whom Tankositsch was the most prominent, a point of national sovereignty which Serbia asked to have settled at The Hague. Austria refused this proffer and declared war. Tankositsch is now a major in the Serbian army.