inquiry. Utmost speed necessary."

William II telegraphed to George V of Great Britain:

"Many thanks for your friendly communication. Your proposals
coincide with my ideas and with the communication which I have
this evening received from Vienna, and which I have passed on to
London. I have just heard from the chancellor that intelligence
has just reached him that Nicholas this evening has ordered the
mobilization of his entire army and fleet. He has not even
awaited the result of the mediation in which I am engaged, and he
has left me completely without information. I am traveling to
Berlin to assure the safety of my eastern frontier, where strong
Russian forces have already taken up their position."

_Russia._ M. Schebeko, Ambassador at Vienna, telegraphed to M.
Sazonof, Minister for Foreign Affairs at St. Petersburg:

"In spite of the general mobilization, my exchange of views with
Count Berchtold and his colleagues continues. They all dwell upon
the absence on Austria's part of any hostile intentions
whatsoever against Russia, and of any designs of conquest at the
expense of Serbia, but they are all equally insistent that
Austria is bound to carry through the action which she has begun
and to give Serbia a serious lesson, which would constitute a
sure guaranty for the future."

_Great Britain._ Ambassador Goschen telegraphed to Sir Edward Grey,
Secretary for Foreign Affairs:

"The [German] Chancellor [Bethmann-Hollweg] informs me that his
efforts to preach peace and moderation at Vienna have been
seriously handicapped by the Russian mobilization against
Austria. He has done everything possible to attain his object at
Vienna, perhaps even rather more than was altogether palatable at
the Ballplatz. He could not, however, leave his country
defenseless while time was being utilized by other powers; and
if, as he learns the case, military measures are now being taken
by Russia against Germany also, it would be impossible for him to
remain quiet. He wished to tell me that it was quite possible
that in a very short time, to-day perhaps, the German Government
would take some very serious step; he was, in fact, just on the
point of going to have an audience with the emperor.

"His excellency added that the news of the active preparations on
the Russo