great power, but to
press its demands with the Serbian Government, and, if need be,
enforce the same by appeal to military measures, in regard to
which the choice of means must be left with it."

The ambassadors were charged to give special emphasis to the view

"that in this question there is concerned an affair which should
be settled solely between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, the
limitation to which it must be the earnest endeavor of the powers
to insure. We anxiously desire the localization of the conflict
because every intercession of another power on account of the
various treaty alliances would precipitate inconceivable
consequences."

The ambassadors were instructed by the chancellor to send him
telegraphic reports of their interviews.

CONTROVERSY OVER THE TIME LIMIT

The diplomatic correspondence of the two following days is occupied
chiefly with the attempt of Serbia and the powers not party to the
dispute to have the time limit of the Austro-Hungarian note
extended. In order to save repetition the correspondence hereafter
will be given under the heads of the dates when letters, telegrams,
etc., were sent, and the subheads of the countries in whose official
reports they are found.

CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT OF DATES

FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1914

_Serbia._ M. Strandtman, Russian Charge d'Affaires at Belgrade,
telegraphed to M. Sazonof, Minister for Foreign Affairs at
Petrograd, that Pashitch, Prime Minister of Serbia, had returned to
the capital, and would give an answer to Austria within the
prescribed time, showing the points which are acceptable or
unacceptable.

"To-day an appeal will be addressed to the powers to defend the
independence of Serbia. Then, added Pashitch, if war is
inevitable, we will make war."

_Great Britain._ Mr. Crackanthorpe, British Charge d'Affaires at
Belgrade, telegraphed Sir Edward Grey that M. Pashitch had told him
that the Austrian demands were considered unacceptable by the
Serbian Government, and that it trusted to Great Britain to induce
Austria to moderate them. M. Pashitch was dejected and anxious.

_Russia._ The Crown Prince Alexander, Prince Regent of Serbia,
telegraphed to Czar Nicholas II of Russia that the Serbian
Government had been willing from the first to open an inquiry in
Serbia as to complicity of Serbian subjects in the crime of
Sarajevo.

"The demands contained in the