July 27--The Fourteenth Army Corps breaks off its manoeuvres. July 31--General mobilization. Aug. 2--French troops attack German frontier posts, cross the frontier, and occupy German towns. Bomb-throwing aviators come into Baden and Bavaria; also, after violating Belgium's neutrality by crossing Belgian territory, they enter the Rhine Province and try to destroy bridges. Only after all this is the German Ambassador at Paris instructed to demand his passports. And England? In London war must already have been decided upon by July 31; the English Admiralty had even before that date advised Lloyd's against insuring German ships. On the same day the German Government gave emphatic support in Vienna to the English mediatory proposal of Sir Edward Grey. But the entire English fleet had already been assembled. Of course, English public opinion was and still is divided. As late as Aug. 1 The Daily Graphic wrote in reference to the Russian mobilization order: "Will the Russian order also be carried out in the provinces on the German frontier? If so, then the labor of the peace-preservers is at an end, for Germany is compelled to answer with the mobilization of its armed forces. We confess that we are not able to understand this attitude of Russia, in view of the resumption of negotiations at Vienna." And a leaflet distributed in the streets of London said that "a war for Russia is a war against civilization." So much as to the preparations for the war--and now we take up the conduct of the war itself. By glancing at the foreign press during this one week we have been able to collect the following specimen pieces of news: London--The British Admiralty reports that the English fleet had driven back the German fleet to the Dutch coast. There is not one word of truth in this. The Admiralty itself appears later to have recovered its senses; at least, it denied a Reuter story about a "great English naval victory near the Dogger Bank." But the English manufactories of lies are already so actively at work that members of Parliament have protested in the House itself against the "lying reports of the English press." Paris--From Paris the assertion was made and disseminated throughout the world that "the landing of English troops in Belgium has begun; they were enthusiastically received by the population. The landing proceeded rapidly and in the best order, as the agreement between the two General Staffs guaranteed the perfect carrying out of the disembarkment plans." Not a single word of this is true. At present not one English soldier has been landed. In a similar way the Baltic Sea has become the scene of invented "battles"--of "German defeats," of course; the Russian Baltic Fleet sank a German war vessel in a battle that never occurred.