Why We Are at War (2nd Edition, revised)

by University of Oxford. Faculty of Modern History

Aug. 12. Great Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary.

Notes:

[ [!-- Note Anchor 25 --][Footnote 25: Extracts are printed in the German version of the German White Book (pp. 28-31) from an Austrian official publication of July 27. We print the extracts (the original not being accessible in this country) in [Appendix IV].]

[ [!-- Note Anchor 26 --][Footnote 26: Full text infra in Appendix I (German White Book, pp. 18-23); more correctly in Correspondence respecting the European Crisis, No. 4, Count Berchtold to Count Mensdorff, July 24; but the differences between the two versions are immaterial for our present purpose.]

[ [!-- Note Anchor 27 --][Footnote 27: See the communication to England in Correspondence, No. 4.]

[ [!-- Note Anchor 28 --][Footnote 28: Correspondence, No. 9, Note communicated by the German Ambassador, July 24.]

[ [!-- Note Anchor 29 --][Footnote 29: Correspondence, No. 6, Sir G. Buchanan to Sir E. Grey, July 24.]

[ [!-- Note Anchor 30 --][Footnote 30: Correspondence, No. 13, Note communicated by Russian Ambassador, July 25.]

[ [!-- Note Anchor 31 --][Footnote 31: Correspondence, No. 17, Sir G. Buchanan to Sir E. Grey, July 25.]

[ [!-- Note Anchor 32 --][Footnote 32: For text of Servian note see infra Appendix I (German White Book, pp. 23-32). The Austrian comments also are given there.]