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28 June 1914: Archduke assassinated

Remain calm. Nothing will come of this silliness.

I totally agree. I is said that his wife would have never been Empress by her inferior rank anyway and that Franz didn't like him. Much noise for nothing.

Serbien muss sterben!!, this can let go unpunished!!

Obscure Balkan disputes pale beside more important matters - such as to-day's opening of the Henley Regatta.

The news from the Balkans did not make the front pages of French newspapers. Instead, the French attention was on the acquittal of Madame Caillaux of the murder of Gaston Calmette. On 16 March 1914, Henriette Caillaux, wife of the former Prime Minister and current Finance Minister, had marched into the office of Monsieur Calmette, editor of Figaro, and shot him six times. The Figaro had previously attacked her husband by publishing love letters from her to him, written while he was still married to his first wife. The trial opened on 20 July and on 28 July, she was acquitted on the grounds that the attack on her honour by Calmette justified the crime.

A celebrity 'crime passionnel' trumps an assassination in the Balkans.

So in this regard it doesn't really model the attritional battles from things like sniping and no-man-land raiding, but instead simulates the same effect by allowing for constant "attritional" battles to be fought along a fairly static front.






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kaleem

Franz Ferdinand found alive.

World War One all a mistake.

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