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Show SAYS CAUSES OF WAR WERE GEOGRAPHICAL Violation of Belgian Neutrality, Professor Pro-fessor Asserts, Sprung From Evsnts Millions of Years Ago. "The -violation of Belgium's neutrality neu-trality by Germany was determined by events that happened millions of years ago." Quoting this statement made recently .by one if his colleagues, Professor Henry E. Bourn of the history department depart-ment of the Western Reserve university, univer-sity, explained yesterday to an audience of University of Utah students and their friends that the really fundamental fundamen-tal causes of the world war were geographical, geo-graphical, and not political or economic. Professor Bourn maintained that the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand Ferdi-nand in 1914 was the culmination of a series of happenings that could be traced back to the topography of the Balkan peninsula. At the close of the Balkan war, he explained, Serbia sought an outlet to the sea and Austria spite-fullv spite-fullv balked her ambition. The source of "international trouble grew till it reached the tragic crisis of 1914. "The collapse of Russia was inevitable inevit-able from her very geographic situation," situa-tion," he went on to say. "Eighty-three "Eighty-three per cent of her population is agricultural ag-ricultural and only 17 per cent industrial. indus-trial. Hence Russia had unlimited man power, but not the industrial resources to equip them with ammunition and other supplies. |