Thirteen Days, July 23-August 4, 1914 eBook

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. I have not (consciously at any rate) selected evidence with a view to making a case, but have tried to give the substance of all the really significant documents, cutting away repetitions and verbiage, and condensing very freely, but quoting verbatim such passages and expres sions as seemed to me of crucial importance. Wherever quotation-marks are employed, I have taken only the most triing liberties with the text, such as substituting Austria for austria-hungary changing the first person into the third, and so forth. Italics are throughout my own. They appear very rarely in the original docu ments, perhaps because of the fact that most of these are telegrams.