ted from it by any consequences, of
whatever kind they might be.

"M. Sazonof agreed with me. Our goal, as I had described it to
him, was an entirely legitimate one, but he considered that the
path which we were pursuing with a view to attaining it was not
the surest. He said that the note which we had delivered was not
happy in its form. He had since been studying it, and if I had
time, he would like to look it through once more with me. I
remarked that I was at his service, but was not authorized either
to discuss the text of the note with him or to interpret it. Of
course, however, his remarks were of interest. The minister then
took all the points of the note in order, and on this occasion
found seven of the ten points admissible without very great
difficulty; only the two points dealing with the collaboration of
the Imperial and Royal officials in Serbia and the point dealing
with the removal of officers and civil servants to be designated
by us, seemed to him to be unacceptable in their present form.
With regard, to the first two points, I was in a position to give
an authentic interpretation in the sense of your excellency's
telegram of the 25th instant; with regard to the third, I
expressed the opinion that it was a necessary demand. Moreover,
matters had already been set in motion. The Serbians had
mobilized on the previous day, and I did not know what had
happened since then."

Count Berchtold instructed Count Szapary by telegraph to declare to
M. Sazonof that, so long as the war between Austria-Hungary and
Serbia remained localized, the [Dual] Monarchy did not aim in any
way at territorial acquisitions of any sort.

Count Szogyeny, Ambassador at Berlin, telegraphed to Count Berchtold
that M. Sazonof had explained to Count Pourtales, the German
Ambassador at St. Petersburg, that he could not guarantee that
Russia had not begun mobilization, and confessed that certain
necessary military measures were being taken.

"Major von Eggeling, German Military Attache at St. Petersburg,
reports that the Russian Minister for War, M. Suchomlinof, has
given him his word of honor that not a man or a horse has been
mobilized; however, naturally, certain military precautions have
been taken; precautions which, as the German military attache
adds ... 'are to be sure pretty far-rea