On June 28, 1914 leading up to World War I, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife his Sophie were assassinated in Sarajevo.
News of the killing appeared in New Zealand's media on June 30, with headlines saying the incident. The evening Post called the killings a politically motivated crime.
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The New Zealand Herald of 3 July ran a story focusing on the personal tragedy of the "Three orphan children", who 'broke into convulsive weeping' when got told their parents had died.
The assassin -Gavrilo Princip- was a member of the Bosnian Serb nationalist group that wanted to unite territories with ethnic Serbs under Serbian control.
Austria-Hungary believed that the Serbian government had helped the Princip's group, Austria-Hungary issued a strong demand.
On July 28, Austria-Hungary continued to declare war on Serbia, triggering a chain reaction of military mobilization prompted by the European allied system. Russia and France were at war with Germany and Austria-Hungary .