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  Austria-Hungary consequently considers herself henceforward in state of war with Serbia.
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  The German government wrote to the Belgian government demanding the right of free passage across Belgium for its troops.
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  The Battle of the Frontiers comprised five offensives launched under French.
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  The Japanese government secretly presented to its Chinese counterpart a list of twenty-one grievances of which it required immediate resolution.
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  Leon Thrasher, a 31-year-old mining engineer and native of Massachusetts, drowned when a German submarine had drowned.
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  The Salonika Campaign Society was formed to promote interest in the Salonika campaign.
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  Angered over American support of his rivals for the control of Mexico, the peasant-born revolutionary leader Pancho Villa attacks the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.
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