l war.

I have the honor to remain, Sir,

Yours respectfully,

GREY.

22 South Street, Park Lane, July 26.

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"A CLOUD OVER EUROPE."

London Times Report, July 27, of Speech by Under Secretary
Acland.

F.D. Acland, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, speaking at an
open-air Liberal demonstration at Steyning, Sussex, on Saturday [July
25], said there was a cloud over Europe, the position there being far
graver and more serious than the position in Ireland. No one could
imagine the disasters which a war in which a great European power was
involved might bring to the whole world. He hoped the power of
accommodating the difficulties in the same way as in the Balkan trouble
last year would be found effective. The whole of the influence of this
country would be used in the interests of peace.

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[Illustration: SIR EDWARD GREY,
British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
(_Photo from Underwood & Underwood._)]

AUSTRO-SERVIAN CRISIS.

Statement in House of Commons, July 27, by Sir Edward Grey, Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs.

The House will, of course, be aware from the public press of what the
nature of the situation in Europe is at the present moment. I think it
is due to the House that I should give in short narrative form the
position which his Majesty's Government have so far taken up. ["Hear,
hear."] Last Friday morning I received from the Austro-Hungarian
Ambassador the text of the communication made by the Austro-Hungarian
Government to the powers, which has appeared in the press, and which
included textually the demand made by the Austro-Hungarian Government
upon Servia.

In the afternoon I saw other Ambassadors, and expressed the view that as
long as the dispute was one between Austria-Hungary and Servia alone I
felt that we had no title to interfere, but that if the relations
between Austria-Hungary and Russia became threatening, the question
would then be one of the peace of Europe--a matter that concerned us
all.

I did not then know what view the Russian Government had taken
of the situation, and without knowing how things were likely to develop
I could not make any immediate proposition; but I said that if relations
between Austria-Hungary and Russia did become threatening, the only
chance of peace appeared to me to be that the four powers--Germany,
France,