The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . arded the proposalof Great Britain, replied that^events had marched toorapidly, and it was toolate to act upon the sugges-tion that the Serbian replymight form the basis of dis-cussion. Austrias real con-tention was that her quarrelwith Serbia was a purelyAustrian concern, with whichRussia had nothing to do. On July 27, the RussianMinister of War, his word of honor tothe German Ambassador thatas yet no mobilization orderhad gone forth; that
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . arded the proposalof Great Britain, replied that^events had marched toorapidly, and it was toolate to act upon the sugges-tion that the Serbian replymight form the basis of dis-cussion. Austrias real con-tention was that her quarrelwith Serbia was a purelyAustrian concern, with whichRussia had nothing to do. On July 27, the RussianMinister of War, his word of honor tothe German Ambassador thatas yet no mobilization orderhad gone forth; that for thetime being, merely precau-tionary measures were beingtaken, and that not one re-servist had been summoned, nor a single horse case Austria should cross the Serbian frontier, militarydistricts in the direction of Austria would be mobilized,but those on the German frontier would not be under anycircumstances. After the war had been long in progressStephen Lauzanne declared in his newspaper, the ParisMatin, that before mobilizing his army the Czar had sent tothe Kaiser four telegrams of which one was the following:. © INTERNATIONAL FILM SERVICE. N. Y. M. Sazonof The Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1914. wlio souglit in vain to restrain Germany from declaring war TsARSKOE Selo, July 29, 1914.^^To His Majesty, The German Emperor.—Thanks for yourtelegram, which is conciliatory and friendly whereas the officialmessage presented to-day by your Ambassador to my Minister 159 OUTBREAK AND CAUSES was conveyed in a different tone. I be^ you to explain thisdivergency. It would be right to give over the Austro-Serbianproblem to The Hague Tribunal. I trust in your wisdom andfriendship.—Nicholas. M. Lauzanne declared that the Kaiser not only did notanswer this telegram, but supprest it. In the officialGerman White Papers, giving documents about the war,this telegram from the Czar did not appear. A reasongiven by German officials for suppressing it was that i
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