The Diplomatic History of the War

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Excerpt from The Diplomatic History of the War: Including a Diary of Negotiations and Events in the Different Capitals, the Texts of the Official Documents of the Various Governments, the Public Speeches in the European Parliaments, an Account of the Military Preparations of the Countries ConcernedDuring these forty-eight hours Great Britain made three attempts at peace. Before all things, the time-limit of the ultimatum had to be extended. Great Britain and Russia urged this at Vienna. Great Britain urged Germany to join in pressing the Austrian Government. All that Berlin consented to do was to pass on the message to Vienna.Secondly, Sir E. Grey urged that Great Britain, France, Germany, and taly should work together at Vienna and St. Petersburgh in favour of con ciliation. Italy assented, France assented, Russia declared herself ready, Germany said she had no objection, if relations between Austria and Russia became threatening.Thirdly, the Russian, French, and British representatives at Belgrade were instructed to advise Servia to go as far as possible to meet Austria.But it was too late. The time-limit, which Austria would not extend, had expired, and after all Servia did not need advice. On the afternoon of Saturday, the 25th, she returned to Austria a reply which amounted to an acceptance of all Austria's demands, subject on certain points to the delays necessary for passing new laws and amending her Constitution, and subject to an explanation by austria-hungary of her precise wishes with regard to the participation of Austro - Hungarian officials in Servian judicial proceedings. The reply went far beyond anything which any Power - Germany not excepted - had ever thought probable. But the same day the British Ambassador at Vienna reported that the tone of the Austrian press left the impression that a settlement was not desired, and he later reported that the impression left on his mind was that the Austrian note was so drawn up as to make war inevitable. In spite of the conciliatory nature of Servia's reply, the Austrian Minister left Belgrade the same evening, and Servia ordered a general mobilisation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.