ght
into our present relations toward Serbia which made it necessary,
quite against our will, and without any selfish secondary object,
for us to show our restless neighbor, with the necessary
emphasis, our firm intention not to permit any longer a movement
which was allowed to exist by the Government, and which was
directed against the existence of the [Dual] Monarchy. The
attitude of Serbia after the receipt of our note had further not
been calculated to make a peaceful solution possible, because
Serbia, even before she transmitted to us her unsatisfactory
reply, had ordered a general mobilization, and in so doing had
already committed a hostile act against us. In spite of this,
however, we had waited for three days. Yesterday hostilities were
opened against us on the Hungarian frontier on the part of
Serbia. By this act we were deprived of the possibility of
maintaining any longer the patience which we had shown toward
Serbia. The establishment of a fundamental but peaceful
amelioration of our relations toward Serbia had now been made
impossible, and we were compelled to meet the Serbian provocation
in the only form which in the given circumstances was consistent
with the dignity of the monarchy."

Count Berchtold telegraphed to Count Mensdorff in London of his
interview with Sir Maurice de Bunsen, British Ambassador in Vienna.
Bunsen had explained Sir Edward Grey's position.

Count Berchtold telegraphed Count Szogyeny at Berlin to communicate
to the German Chancellor or Secretary of State the following
information:

"According to mutually consistent reports, received from St.
Petersburg, Kiev, Warsaw, Moscow, and Odessa, Russia is making
extensive military preparations. M. Sazonof has indeed given an
assurance on his word of honor, as has also the Russian Minister
of War, that mobilization has not up to now been ordered; the
latter has, however, told the German Military Attache that the
military districts which border on Austria-Hungary--Kiev, Odessa,
Moscow, and Kazan--will be mobilized should our troops cross the
Serbian frontier.

"Under these circumstances I would urgently ask the Cabinet at
Berlin to take into immediate consideration the question whether
the attention of Russia should not be drawn, in a friendly
manner, to the fact that the mo