communications from Vienna had been of a promising nature--but
Russia's mobilization had spoiled everything.--(British "White
Paper" No. 121.)

Therefore, the German Chancellor, in his memorandum placed before the
Reichstag, stated with full justification:

The Russian Government has smashed the laborious attempts at
mediation on the part of the European State Chancelleries, on the
eve of success, by the mobilization, endangering the safety of the
empire. The measures for a mobilization, about whose seriousness
the Russian Government was fully acquainted from the beginning, in
connection with their constant denial, show clearly that Russia
wanted war.

To this is to be added that the English Government also was made
fully cognizant of the intentions of the Russian mobilization, by a
witness that could not be suspected, namely, its own representative
in St. Petersburg, and therefore must bear full responsibility.


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II.

GREY'S OMISSIONS AND ERRORS.