ium._ M. Davignon, Minister for Foreign Affairs, telegraphed to
the Ministers at Paris, Berlin, London, Vienna, and St. Petersburg
to carry out the instructions [in case of war between France and
Germany becoming imminent] of July 24; and to the Ministers at Rome,
The Hague, and Luxemburg to carry out instructions [the same] of
July 25.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 1914

_Austria-Hungary._ On the following day, Ambassador Szogyeny
telegraphed from Berlin that no answer had been received from Russia
to Germany's demand that she demobilize; that Russian troops had
crossed the German frontier at Schwidden (southeast of Bialla); and
that Germany therefore regarded herself at war with Russia and had
that morning given Ambassador Swerbeiev his passports.

_Germany._ Ambassador Lichnowsky telegraphed from London to
Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg that Sir Edward Grey, British
Secretary for Foreign Affairs, had given up as impracticable his
suggestions as to the possibility of creating lasting British
neutrality, which were made without previous inquiry of France and
without knowledge of mobilization.

RUSSIA EXPLAINS HER EFFORTS FOR PEACE

_Russia._ M. Sazonof, Minister for Foreign Affairs, published an
announcement respecting recent events in correction of a "garbled
version" appearing in the foreign press. This recited the
circumstances of the Austrian note of July 23 to Serbia and Serbia's
reply of the 25th.

"Russia considered that the humiliation of Serbia, involved in
these demands, and equally the evident intention of
Austria-Hungary to secure her own hegemony in the Balkans, which
underlay her conditions, were inadmissible. The Russian
Government, therefore, pointed out to Austria-Hungary in the most
friendly manner that it would be desirable to re-examine the
points contained in the Austro-Hungarian note. The
Austro-Hungarian Government did not see their way to agree to a
discussion of the note. The moderating influence of the four
powers at Vienna was equally unsuccessful....

"The Austro-Hungarian Government proceeded to mobilize and
declared war officially against Serbia, and the following day
Belgrade was bombarded. The manifesto which accompanied the
declaration of war openly accuses Serbia of having prepared and
carried out the crime of Sarajevo. Such an accusation of a crime
at common law, launched against a whole people and a w