edure to be followed
with regard to Austria-Hungary.

M. Barrere, Ambassador at Rome, reported his interview with the
Marquis di San Giuliano, in which that Minister for Foreign Affairs
had repudiated his reported approval of the action of Austria-Hungary.

"He is convinced that Austria will not withdraw any of her
claims, and will maintain them, even at the risk of bringing
about a general conflagration; he doubts whether Germany is
disposed to lend herself to any pressure on her ally. He asserts,
however, that Germany at this moment attaches great importance to
her relations with London, and he believes that if any power can
determine Berlin in favor of peaceful action, it is England.

"As for Italy she will continue to make every effort in favor of
peace. It is with this end in view that he had adhered without
hesitation to Sir Edward Grey's proposal for a meeting in London
of the ambassadors of those powers which are not directly
interested in the Austro-Serbian dispute."

M. Jules Cambon, Ambassador at Berlin, reported the interview of Sir
Edward Goschen, the British Ambassador, with the German Secretary of
State, and said that Herr von Jagow's language confirmed that of
Baron von Schoen at Paris.

M. Bienvenu-Martin then notified the French Ambassadors at London,
St. Petersburg, Berlin, Vienna, and Rome, of his interview with
Count Szecsen, the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador, and the memorandum
he had submitted criticizing the Serbian reply to the Austrian note.

_Belgium._ Baron Beyens, Minister at Berlin, reported to M.
Davignon, Minister for Foreign Affairs at Brussels, the diplomatic
situation at the German capital. Germany had not replied to the
British proposal. "The decision rests with the emperor."

TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1914

_Serbia._ Count Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian Minister for Foreign
Affairs, this day telegraphed to M. Pashitch, Serbian Prime
Minister, that Serbia's reply to the Austrian note being
unsatisfactory, the Austro-Hungarian Government

"was compelled to see to the safeguarding of their rights and
interests, and, with this object, to have recourse to force of
arms. Austria-Hungary consequently considers herself henceforward
in a state of war with Serbia."

M. Pashitch telegraphed this news from Nish to all the Serbian
Legations abroad.

Dr. M. Spalaikovitch, Serbian Minister at Petrograd, gave the
inf