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

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

[Footnote 33:  Correspondence, No. 42, Sir F. Bertie to Sir E. Grey, July 27; ibid.  No. 49, Sir E. Grey to Sir R. Rodd, July 27.]

[Footnote 34:  Correspondence, No. 43.  Sir E. Goschen to Sir E. Grey, July 27.]

[Footnote 35:  German White Book, p. 46 (infra in Appendix I).  The Tsar to His Majesty, July 30.]

[Footnote 36:  Correspondence, No. 45.  Sir G. Buchanan to Sir E. Grey.]

[Footnote 37:  Austria declined conversations on July 28 (Correspondence, No. 93); but for conversations of July 31 see Correspondence, No.  III; of August I, see Appendix V.]

[Footnote 38:  Correspondence, No. 70 (I).  M. Sazonof to Russian Ambassador at Berlin, July 28.]

[Footnote 39:  Correspondence, No. 72.  Sir G. Buchanan to Sir E. Grey, July 28.]

[Footnote 40:  German White Book, pp. 43, 45 (in Appendix I, infra).]

[Footnote 41:  Correspondence, No. 76.  Sir E. Goschen to Sir E. Grey, July 29.]

[Footnote 42:  German White Book, p. 42, Exhibit 17 (infra, Appendix I).]

[Footnote 43:  Correspondence, No. 105 (Enclosure 3), July 30.]

[Footnote 44:  German White Book, p. 7; the date of the warning seems to be July 27.]

[Footnote 45:  German White Book, p. 40, Exhibit II.]

[Footnote 46:  Ibid. p. 9.]

[Footnote 47:  Ibid. p. 10.]

[Footnote 48:  Correspondence, No. 85.  Sir E. Goschen to Sir E. Grey, July 29.]

[Footnote 49:  Ibid.  No. 101.  Sir E. Grey to Sir E. Goschen, July 30.]

[Footnote 50:  Correspondence, No. 123.  Sir E. Grey to Sir E. Goschen, Aug. 1.]

[Footnote 51:  Ibid.  No. 105.  Sir E. Grey to Sir F. Bertie, July 30.]

[Footnote 52:  Ibid.  No. 119.  Sir E. Grey to Sir F. Bertie, July 31.]

[Footnote 53:  Ibid.  No. 114, 120, 122.]

[Footnote 54:  Ibid.  No. 148.  Sir E. Grey to Sir F. Bertie, Aug. 2.]

[Footnote 55:  Ibid.  No. 153.  Sir E. Grey to Sir E. Goschen, Aug. 4.]

[Footnote 56:  Ibid.  No. 159.  Sir E. Grey to Sir E. Goschen, Aug. 4]

CHAPTER V

NEGOTIATORS AND NEGOTIATIONS

For purposes of reference the following list of dramatis personae may be useful:—­

GREAT BRITAIN:  King George V, succ. 1910.
Foreign Secretary:  Sir Edward Grey.
Ambassadors from France:  M. Paul Cambon.
  Russia:  Count Benckendorff.
  Germany:  Prince Lichnowsky.
  Austria:  Count Albert Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein.
  Belgium:  Count A. de Lalaing (Minister).