a."

Count Szecsen, Austro-Hungarian Ambassador at Paris, telegraphed to
Count Berchtold that, on his presentation of the copy of the note to
Serbia to M. Bienvenu-Martin, French Acting Secretary for Foreign
Affairs, point five in the note had seemed to make a special
impression on the secretary, since he had asked that it be reread.

"I took the opportunity to impress on him that the question was
one which must be brought to an issue directly between Serbia and
us, but that it was in the general interests of Europe that the
trouble which for years past had been kept up by Serbian
intrigues against us should at last make way for a clear
situation.

"All friends of peace and order, and I placed France in the first
rank of these, should therefore give serious advice to Serbia to
change completely her attitude and to satisfy our just demands.

"The minister said that it was the duty of Serbia to proceed
energetically against any accomplices of the murderers of
Sarajevo, a duty which she could not escape. While laying special
stress on the sympathy of France for Austria-Hungary, and on the
good relations which existed between our two countries, he
expressed the hope that the controversy would be brought to an
end peacefully in a manner corresponding to our wishes.

"The minister avoided every attempt to palliate or to defend in
any way the attitude of Serbia."

In a second telegram Count Szecsen reported that Baron von Schoen,
German Ambassador at Paris, had officially informed M. Bienvenu-Martin,
French Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, that, in the view of the
Berlin Cabinet, the Serbian controversy concerned only the two parties
to it, and, in case that third states should wish to intervene, Germany
would be on the side of her ally. M. Bienvenu-Martin replied that his
Government agreed that the controversy concerned Belgrade and Vienna
alone, and he hoped for a peaceful solution.

Count Szapary, Austro-Hungarian Ambassador at St. Petersburg,
telegraphed to Count Berchtold that, on presenting the copy of the
note to Serbia to M. Sazonof, Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs,
the minister had questioned the fact of the outrages complained of
arising in Serbia, and declared that the note was a pretext for war
on Serbia.

"I said to him that no one among us was attacking the integrity
of Serbia or the dynasty. M.