To understand how it all started requires understanding the mindset of the time, and that all these countries had prior arrangements with neighbouring countries, which they felt obliged to honour.
It’s best explained in the link below..
https://pc.blogspot.com/2015/04/countdown-to-anzac-day-so-who-pulled.html

I just saw a play yesterday about the man who shot the Archduke
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