Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Wednesday, July 8, 1914. Rebels and Emperors.

Mexican rebels under Álvaro Obregón defeated a Federal force numbering 6,000 sent out from Guadalajara to arrest his advance.


Exiled Chinese revolutionary figure Sun Yat-sen reorganized the Kuomintang party under the new name Chinese Revolutionary Party after Yuan Shikai, self-proclaimed emperor of China, outlawed the political party.

The Austro Hungarian Council of Ministers gave its recommendations to the Emperor, with the first bieng a surprise attack on Serbia being the preferred option, and the second place one being to  place demands on Serbia before mobilization to provide a proper "juridical basis for a declaration of war".

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Tuesday, July 7, 1914. Pondering war.

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