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Show !i 1' WAR ENDS FIVE YEARS I AFTER SARAJEVO CRIME , The world war came to a formal end five years after the assassination assassina-tion of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and two years and two day after the first American troops landed in France. The Austrian heir-apparent was killed at Sarajevo, June 8, 1914. The first American contin- j gent disembarked in France, June 26, 1917. i On July 28, 1914, one month after ! the death of Francis Ferdinand, Austria declared war on Serbia, marking the beginning of hostilities. hostili-ties. On August 1, Germany declared de-clared war on Russia and invaded Luxemburg. Germany sent her ultimatum ulti-matum to Belgium August 2, and declared war on France August 3. The next day Great Britain declared war on Germany. I June 28 also in the anniversary of the renewal of the triple alliance i between Germany, Austria and Italy which has been broken by the war. On June 28, 1890, the German reichstag adopted a bill creating a new German army, the organization of which is greatly diminished in power by the treaty signed on June 28 last. In American history June 28 is the anniversary of the battle of Monmouth, N. J., where in 1778, Washington defeated a force under Sir Henry Clinton. |