HOW GERMANY PRECIPITATED THE WAR.
RUPTURE PRODUCED BY HER ULTIMATUM.
RUSSIAN AND AUSTRIAN NEGOTIATIONS FRIENDLY.
(Received September 18, 12.10 a m.)
Loxdox, September 17. A White Paper has been issued containing despatches sent by Sir Maurice de Bunsen, British Ambassador at Vienna, before war broke out.
These show that on August 1 the conversations between St. Petersburg and Vienna were proceeding in the friendliest vein. Austria had even assented to mediation on the points of her ultimatum incompatible with Servian independence. It was at this point that Germany intervened with an ultimatum to St. Petersburg and Paris, cutting short prospects of peace. A few days' delay would in all probability have saved Europe the greatest calamity in history.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15717, 18 September 1914, Page 5
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