Bismarck : $b some secret pages of his history (Vol. 2 of 3). Being a diary kept by Dr. Moritz Busch during twenty-five years' official and private intercourse with the great ChancellorBusch, Moritz
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Bismarck : $b some secret pages of his history (Vol. 2 of 3). Being a diary kept by Dr. Moritz Busch during twenty-five years' official and private intercourse with the great Chancellor
Busch, Moritz
Bismarck, Otto, Fürst von, 1815-1898
_May 9th._--A communication was yesterday despatched to S., which
contains the following passage: “You will have seen from the ciphered
despatch of Consul-General Rosen, dated the 21st of April, and
forwarded _viâ_ Vienna, that M. de Kallay in Belgrade denies being the
author of the report of our alleged intervention on behalf of Servia,
in the Zwornik question. Different versions of his communications seem
to have reached Vienna and Constantinople, as would appear from the
statements made by Count Andrassy to your Excellency, and by Count
Ludolf to Herr von Radowitz. Similarly, the false reports that have
reached the newspapers can be traced to the same source. As they
are obstinately maintained, it has been necessary to publish the
following _démenti_ in the _Staatsanzeiger_. An instruction has been
issued from the Foreign Office, to contradict a report from Belgrade,
dated the 28th ultimo, and published in the _Augsburger Allgemeine
Zeitung_ of the 2nd instant, which is in every respect unfounded. The
report in question maintains, in opposition to the _Norddeutsche
Allgemeine Zeitung_, that the Berlin Cabinet intends to intervene in
the Zwornik question on behalf of Servia. The correspondent observes:
‘I am informed, on an authority which it is impossible to doubt, that
Prince Bismarck, in the last Note sent by him to Herr von Radowitz,
expressly directed him to support the Servian demands.’ This statement
is wilfully false in every particular. No Note, no instruction, no
communication of this or a similar kind has been sent. When this
audacious invention was first circulated, an official inquiry which was
instituted into the affair showed that its author, whom we shall not
name for the present, was closely connected with certain non-German
official circles. Doubtless the correspondent knows the source of the
rumour, and will be able to judge for himself what he should think of
its trustworthiness.”
_May 10th._--I noted down the following from a despatch sent to
Rosen yesterday: “Count Andrassy tells me that M. de Kallay (the
Austro-Hungarian agent to the Servian Government) has reported from
Belgrade that the Regents give it to be understood that the German
Consul-General has said that Servia would ultimately get Zwornik, but
must avoid any step that would cause uneasiness.”
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