be successful, do
anything to precipitate a conflict. In these circumstances I
trusted that the Russian Government would defer the mobilization
ukase for as long as possible, and that troops would not be allowed
to cross the frontier even when it was issued.--(British "White
Paper," No, 44.)

Just as its own Ambassador in Petersburg pointed out to the British
Government the dangers of Russian mobilization, England did not lack
German warnings. On July 28 the British Ambassador in Berlin, Sir E.
Goschen, reported as follows by wire concerning a conversation with the
Imperial Chancellor:

... but if the news were true which he had just read in the papers,
that Russia had mobilized fourteen army corps in the South, he
thought the situation was very serious, and he himself would be in
a very difficult position, as in these circumstances it would be
out of his power to continue to preach moderation at Vienna. He
added that Austria, who as yet was only partially mobilizing, would
have to take similar measures, and if war were to result Russia
would be entirely responsible.--(British "White Paper" No. 71.)

In a telegram of Mr. Goschen's of July 30, reporting a conversation with
the Secretary of State, von Jagow, it is stated:

He begged me to impress on you difficulty of Germany's
position in view of Russian mobilization and military measures
which he hears are being taken in France.--(British "White Paper"
No. 98.)

The British Government has added a few further publications to its
"White Paper." Among these is a report of the hitherto British
Ambassador in Vienna, Sir Maurice de Bunsen. The document is dated Sept.
1; that is, a full month after the outbreak of the war. The tendency of
this publication is not only to unburden Russia and England from all
blame and to put it upon German and Austro-Hungarian politics, but it
attempts to make Germany responsible for the war to greater extent than
Austria-Hungary in trying to sow dissension between the two allies.

Ambassador de Bunsen represents matters as if Germany, through its
ultimatum to Russia on July 31, had roughly interrupted negotiations
promising success then going on between Vienna and Petersburg. In this
report it is stated:

(Retranslated.) M. Schebeko [the Russian Ambassador at Vienna] on
July 28th attempted to induce the Austrian Government to authorize
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