e, Ambassador at Paris, sent Grey a memorandum of
M. Bienvenu-Martin's, French Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, as
to steps to be taken to prevent hostilities between Austria-Hungary
and Serbia.

M. Jules Cambon, French Ambassador at Berlin, has been requested to
act in concert with the British Ambassador there in Grey's plan. M.
Paul Cambon, Ambassador at London, has been appointed France's
representative in the four-power conference. France is ready to
instruct her representatives at St. Petersburg, Vienna, and Belgrade
to induce these governments to abstain from hostilities pending the
results of the conference.

But M. Bienvenu-Martin considers success of the conference depends
on the action Berlin is willing to take at Vienna beforehand.

Sir George Buchanan, Ambassador at St. Petersburg, telegraphed to
Grey an account of an interview just had with M. Sazonof, Minister
for Foreign Affairs. Sazonof was conciliatory and optimistic.

"Sazonof said he was perfectly ready to stand aside if the powers
accepted the proposal for a conference, but he trusted that you
would keep in touch with the Russian Ambassador in the event of
its taking place."

_France._ M. Farges, Consul General at Basle, Switzerland, reported
to M. Bienvenu-Martin, Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs at Paris,
that German officers on leave in this district had been ordered to
return to Germany, and that owners of motor cars in Baden had been
ordered to be ready to place them at the disposal of the Government,
and secrecy enjoined as to the order under penalty of fine. People
at Basle are uneasy, and banking facilities restricted.

M. de Fleuriau, Charge d'Affaires at London, reported to M.
Bienvenu-Martin that the German and Austrian Ambassadors there were
letting it appear that they were sure Great Britain would preserve
neutrality in case of war. Sir Arthur Nicholson, Under-Secretary for
Foreign Affairs, had, however, assured Prince Lichnowsky, the German
Ambassador, that Great Britain was free to intervene if she judged
it expedient. To make this understood in Germany, nevertheless, that
Government should be made to know for certain that they will find
Great Britain by the side of France and Russia.

M. Paleologue, Ambassador at St. Petersburg, telegraphed that M.
Sazonof, Minister for Foreign Affairs, was using conciliatory
language to the ambassadors, and was restraining the press,
particularly in recommending gr