er.[72]

[Footnote 72: English _White Paper_, No. 112.]

Here again the world is not favored with the text of the message, in
which the Chancellor "begged Austria to reply," nor with that of the
Austrian Foreign Minister's reply.

While these events were happening in Berlin and London, the Russian
Ambassador in Vienna advised Sazonof "that Austria has determined not
to yield to the intervention of the powers and that she is moving
troops against Russia as well as Servia."[73]

[Footnote 73: English _White Paper_, No. 113.]

Russia thereupon, on July 31, ordered a general mobilization of her
army.

Concurrently with these interviews, the English Ambassador in Vienna
had a conversation with the Austrian Under-Secretary of State and

called his attention to the fact that during the discussion
of the Albanian frontier at the London Conference of
Ambassadors the Russian Government had stood behind Servia,
and that a compromise between the views of Russia and
Austria-Hungary resulted with accepted frontier line.
Although he[74] spoke in a conciliatory tone, and did not
regard the situation as desperate, _I could not get from him
any suggestion for a similar compromise in the present
case_. Count Forgach is going this afternoon to see the
Russian Ambassador, whom I have informed of the above
conversation.[75]

[Footnote 74: The Austrian Under-Secretary of State.]

[Footnote 75: English _White Paper_, No. 118.]

Notwithstanding all these discouragements and rebuffs, Sir Edward
Grey, that unwearying friend of peace, still continued to make a last
attempt to preserve peace by instructing the British Ambassador in
Berlin to sound the German Foreign Office, as he would sound the
Russian Foreign Office,

whether it would be possible for the four disinterested
Powers to offer to Austria that they would undertake to see
that she obtained full satisfaction of her demands on
Servia, provided that they did not impair Servian
sovereignty and the integrity of Servian territory. As your
Excellency is aware, Austria has already declared her
willingness to respect them. Russia might be informed by the
four Powers that they would undertake to prevent Austrian
demands from going the length of impairing Servian
sovereignty and integrity. All Powers would of course
suspend further military operations or preparations.

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