nature of the Servian reply, for
the Russian Charge at Berlin telegraphed to Sazonof:

The Wolff Bureau has not published the text of the Servian
response which was communicated to it. Up to this moment
this note has not appeared _in extenso_ in any of local
journals, which according to all the evidence do not wish to
give it a place in their columns, understanding the calming
effect which this publication would produce upon the German
readers.[25]

[Footnote 25: Russian _Orange Paper_, No. 46.]

Instead of getting the truth, the Berlin populace proceeded to make
riotous demonstrations against the Russian and Servian Embassies.

The time limit on the ultimatum expired on July the 25th at six
o'clock in the evening.

There is no more significant and at the same time discreditable
feature of an infinitely discreditable chapter in history than that
the Austrian Government, _without giving the Servian answer the
consideration even of a single hour_, immediately severed all
diplomatic intercourse with Belgrade and at 6.30 P.M. the Minister
of Austria

informed the Servian Government by note that, not having
received within the delay fixed a satisfactory response, he
is leaving Belgrade with the whole personnel of the
legation.

On the same night Austria ordered the mobilization of a considerable
part of its army.

Notwithstanding these rebuffs, England, France, and Russia continued
to labor for peace, and made further pacific suggestions, all of which
fell upon deaf ears.

On July 25th, Sir Edward Grey proposed that the four Powers (England,
France, Italy, and Germany) should unite

in asking the Austrian and Russian Governments not to cross
the frontier and to give time for the four Powers, acting at
Vienna and St. Petersburg, to try and arrange matters. If
Germany will adopt this view I feel strongly that France and
ourselves should act upon it. Italy would no doubt gladly
cooperate.[26]

[Footnote 26: English _White Paper_, Nos. 24 and 25.]

To this reasonable request the German Chancellor replied:

The distinction made by Sir Edward Grey between the
Austro-Servian and Austro-Russian conflict is quite correct.
We wish as little as England to mix in the first, and, first
and last, we take the ground that this question must be
localized by the abstention of all the Powers from
intervention i