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==1914==
===Precursor to British Declaration of War===
*[[George V|King George]] wires
*[[Russia]] does not reply to German ultimatum expiring at noon.
*French mobilisation ordered 3.40 p.m.
*Germany, having ostensibly ordered general mobilisation 5 p.m., declares war on Russia 7.10 p.m.; makes out that Russians had crossed frontier in afternoon and begun war. (Declaration drafted before noon.)
*Tsar wires to King George that he had to mobilise on account of [[Serbia]]; but that though he had promised [[Kaiser]] he would not move [[troops]] during negotiations, Germany had suddenly declared war.
*Austria at last moment appears accommodating to England.
*[[Italy]] declines to take part in war, as being an aggressive one.
*[[Sir Edward Grey]] protests against detention of British ships in Hamburg.
*[[Belgium]] announces her intention of upholding her neutrality.<ref>Note presented to the various European Governments stating that Belgium proposed to carry out strictly her obligations under the Treaty of London, and had mobilised her [[army]] to defend her neutrality and her international obligations.</ref>
==References/notes==
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