29 June 1914

100 years ago today: the Telegraph reports the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie by “some fanatic at Sarajevo” describing it as a “real disaster, of which it is difficult to over-estimate the importance” The death of the Archduke is felt to be a “serious loss to Europe at large” and his “cowardly murder” has “shocked the conscience of the whole world.” Another article states that the “political consequences are likely to be grave”.  The Telegraph correspondent in Berlin states that “the Austrian problem elevates itself ever more menacingly to a danger for the peace of Europe”