verly
chosen in consultation with that Cabinet, in order to surprise
the Triple Entente at a moment of disorganization.

"He has seen the Italian Ambassador, who has just interrupted his
holiday in order to return. It looks as if Italy would be
surprised, to put it no higher, at having been kept out of the
whole affair by her two Allies."

M. Bienvenu-Martin notified the French Legations at London, Berlin,
St. Petersburg, Vienna, and Stockholm of a visit made him by Baron
von Schoen, the German Ambassador, to protest against an article in
the _Echo de Paris_ calling his _demarche_ of yesterday a "German
threat." M. Berthelot, French Political Director, assured him that
no private information had been given out by the Foreign office of
the _demarche_, and that the article merely showed that the
proceeding was known elsewhere than at the Quai d'Orsay. The German
Ambassador did not take up the allusion.

M. Paleologue, French Ambassador at St. Petersburg, reported to M.
Bienvenu-Martin that M. Sazonof, Russian Secretary for Foreign
Affairs, had been unfavorably impressed by the evasive replies and
recriminations of Count de Pourtales, the German Ambassador, over
the note to Serbia.

"The ministers will hold a council to-morrow with the czar
presiding. M. Sazonof preserves complete moderation. 'We must
avoid,' he said to me, 'everything which might precipitate the
crisis. I am of opinion that, even if the Austro-Hungarian
Government come to blows with Serbia, we ought not to break off
negotiations.'"

M. Jules Cambon, French Ambassador at Berlin, reported to M.
Bienvenu-Martin the interview with Herr von Jagow, German Secretary
of State, by Sir Horace Rumbold.

"The British Charge d'Affaires inquired of Herr von Jagow, as I
had done yesterday, if Germany had had no knowledge of the
Austrian note before it was dispatched, and he received so clear
a reply in the negative that he was not able to carry the matter
further; but he could not refrain from expressing his surprise at
the blank cheque given by Germany to Austria.

"Herr von Jagow having replied to him that the matter was a
domestic one for Austria, he remarked that it had become
essentially an international one."

Later in the day M. Cambon reported the interview between Herr von
Jagow and M. Broniewski, Russian Charge d'Affaires at Berlin.

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