news sheets had been printed in advance so as to be ready
for all eventualities, and they were put on sale in the
afternoon, but they have now been confiscated."

Ambassador Swerbeiev telegraphed from Berlin to M. Sazonof that he
had presented the minister's telegram of July 29 to Secretary of
State von Jagow, who "declared that he considered it impossible for
Austria to accept our proposal."

_Great Britain._ Ambassador Bunsen telegraphed from Vienna to Sir
Edward Grey, Secretary for Foreign Affairs:

"Russian Ambassador [Schebeko] hopes that Russian mobilization
will be regarded by Austria as what it is, viz., a clear
intimation that Russia must be consulted regarding the fate of
Serbia, but he does not know how the Austrian Government are
taking it. He says that Russia must have an assurance that Serbia
will not be crushed, but she would understand that
Austria-Hungary is compelled to exact from Serbia measures which
will secure her Slav provinces from the continuance of hostile
propaganda from Serbian territory.

"The French Ambassador [Dumaine] hears from Berlin that the
German Ambassador at Vienna [Tschirsky] is instructed to speak
seriously to the Austro-Hungarian Government against acting in a
manner calculated to provoke a European war.

"Unfortunately the German Ambassador is himself so identified
with extreme anti-Russian and anti-Serbian feeling prevalent in
Vienna that he is unlikely to plead the cause of peace with
entire sincerity.

"Although I am not able to verify it, I have private information
that the German Ambassador knew the text of the Austrian
ultimatum to Serbia before it was dispatched, and telegraphed it
to the German Emperor. I know from the German Ambassador himself
that he indorses every line of it."

Ambassador Buchanan telegraphed from St. Petersburg to Grey of an
interview with the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs.

"M. Sazonof said that German Ambassador [Count Pourtales] had
told him yesterday afternoon that German Government were willing
to guarantee that Serbian integrity would be respected by
Austria. To this he had replied that this might be so, but
nevertheless Serbia would become an Austrian vassal, just as, in
similar circumstances Bokhara had become a Russian vassal. There
would be a revolution in Russia if she