—Prayers offered for the nation in churches and chapels throughout the United Kingdom.
—The Admiralty called out the Naval Reserves. Patriotic demonstration before Buckingham Palace.
—Partial Moratorium decreed in the United Kingdom by Royal Proclamation.
3. Announcement of the abandonment of Cowes Regatta by special desire of the King.
—German ultimatum to Belgium.
—Royal Proclamations issued authorising the Admiralty to requisition British ships, prohibiting the use of wireless by British merchant vessels, and forbidding the export of numerous articles described as warlike stores.
—The German Embassy left Paris, the French Embassy Berlin.
—Sir E. Grey's statement in the House of Commons. (See Eng. Hist., Chap. IV.)
4. Order in Council declaring it expedient that the Government should take control of the railways of the United Kingdom.
—British ultimatum to Germany. British Army mobilisation ordered by Proclamation.