the crisis is seen,
in view of the determined support which Germany is giving to
Austria.

"I, for my part, see in Great Britain the only power which might
be listened to at Berlin.

"Whatever happens, Paris, St. Petersburg, and London will not
succeed in maintaining peace with dignity unless they show a firm
and absolutely united front."

At the hour of expiration of the ultimatum to Serbia, M. Dumaine,
French Ambassador at Vienna, reported to M. Bienvenu-Martin that
Prince Koudacheff, the Russian Charge d'Affaires, had presented
alone his request for an extension of the time limit, it seeming to
the representatives of the other powers useless to support him when
there was no time to do so.

"At the last moment we are assured that the Austrian Minister has
just left Belgrade hurriedly; he must have thought the Serbian
Government's acceptance of the conditions imposed by his
Government inadequate."

SERBIA'S REPLY TO THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN NOTE

A few minutes before 6 p. m., July 25, 1914, the Serbian Government
made its reply to the Austrian note.

This declared that no attempts had been made, or declarations
uttered, by responsible representatives of Serbia, tending to
subvert Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina, since March
31, 1909, when protests against the annexation of these countries
made in the Skupshtina (Serbian Parliament) were cut short by
declarations of the Serbian Government. It drew attention to the
fact that Austria-Hungary had since then made no complaint in this
connection save in regard to a school book, concerning which it had
received an entirely satisfactory explanation.

"Serbia has several times given proofs of her pacific and
moderate policy during the Balkan crisis, and it is thanks to
Serbia and to the sacrifice that she has made in the exclusive
interest of European peace that that peace has been preserved.
The Royal Government cannot be held responsible for
manifestations of a private character, such as articles in the
press and the peaceable work of societies--manifestations which
take place in nearly all countries in the ordinary course of
events, and which, as a general rule, escape official control.
The Royal Government are all the less responsible, in view of the
fact that at the time of the solution of a series of questions
which arose between Se