Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-14

Majesty the king and repeated verb lily on the twenty ninth of July. 'Two-My ambassador in London transmitted message from Sir Ed ward Grey to Berlin saying that only n case France was likely to be crush - England would interfere.
 '" 'Three-On the thirtieth my ann Dassador in London reported that Sir Edward Grey in the course of a pri- Jate tsic) conversation told him that
 the conflict remained localized be- tween Russia-not Servia-and Austria England would not move but if we mixed in the fray she would take quick decisions and grave manOeuVres: n other words if I left my ally Aus tria in the lurch to fight alone Eng and would not touch me.
 Exchange of Messages.
 Four-This communication being directly counter to the kings message to me l telegraphed to His Majesty on the twenty ninth or thirtieth thanking him for the kind message through my brother and begging him to use all his bower to keep France and Russia his lilies, from making any War-like prep trations calculated to disturb my work on mediation, stating that I was in constant communication with His Majesty. the Czar. In the evening the ing kindly answered that he had ord cred his government to use every pos iible influence with his allies to re-
 
 sary measures. At the same time His Majesty asked me I should transmit to Vienna the British proposal that Aus tria to take Belgrade and q few other Servian towns and a strip of country main mise (sic) to make ,ure that the Servian promises on pap should be fulfilled in reality. This proposal was in the same moment tel
 Eraphed to me from Vienna for Lon ion quite in conjunction with the Brit 'sh proposal besides I had tele-
 ephed to His Majesty the Czar the same as an Idea or mlne before re- ;eived the two communications from Vienna and London. As both were of the same opinion l immediately trans mitted the teleErams vice versa to Ni- enna and London. I felt that I was lble to tide the question over and was iaDpy at the peaceful outlook.
 " 'FiVe-While 1 was preparing note to His Majesty the Czar. the next morning to inform him that Vienna and Berlin were agreed about the treatment of affairs, I received the telephone message from His Excel lency the Chancellor that in the night before the czar had given the order 70 mobilize. the whole of the ussian army which was of course also meant gainst Germany; whereas up till then the southern armies had been mob tlized against Austria.
 About Invasion of Belgium.
 " 'Six-In a telegram from London my ambassador informed me he had British government would | neutrality of France and l wished to know whether Germany would refrain from attack I tele- | graphed to His Majesty the king per | sonally that mobilization being all | ready carired out could not be stop | ed but if His Majesty could guaran- tee with his armed force the netral- | ty of France I would refrain from at acking her alone and employ my fore | g elsewhere. His Majesty answered | hat he thought my offe rwas based on | . misunderstandine and as far as I | an make out Sir Edward Grey never | ook my offer into serious considera ion. He never answered it. Instead. | e declared England had to defend | 'eIgian neutrality which had 10 be -iolated by Germany on strateGical l ounds, news having been received