Diary JULY 5, 1914

07-1914, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1914 / 1 minute of reading

World War One Diary for Sunday, July 5, 1914:

The Reich Chancellor’s announcement following the ‘Blank Check’ to the State Secretary of the Foreign Office, von Jagow, Vienna, to take the reins in order not to have to pay for the consequences of the Austro-Hungarian policy.

POLITICS: GERMANY
Austrian Special Envoy Count Hoyos arrives in Berlin to find out German intentions after Sarajevo.
Austrian Ambassador lunches at Potsdam New Palace with the Kaiser who receives Francis Josephs letter about punishing ‘this gang of criminal agitators in Belgrade’. After lunch, Chancellor Bethmann endorses Kaiser’s support for ‘immediate action’ by Austria against Serbia (Bethman repeats pledge to Austrian Ambassador next day).
Chancellor urges Kaiser not to give up his usual summer cruise.

POLITICS: AUSTRIA
Imperial rescript to the two Prime Ministers calls Sarajevo the outcome of ‘the fanaticism of a small band of misguided men’. Emperor receives Army CoS General Conrad and refuses his martial law request.

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.

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