E-text prepared by Produced by Steven Gibbs, Richard J. Shiffer, and Distributed Proofreading volunteers (http://www.pgdp.net) for Project Gutenberg Transcriber's note: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings and other inconsistencies. Text that has been changed to correct an obvious error is noted at the end of this ebook. Many occurrences of mismatched single and double quotation marks remain as they were in the original. Text enclosed by equal signs was in bold face in the original (=bold=). THE GREAT WAR AND HOW IT AROSE 1915 Parliamentary Recruiting Committee 12, Downing Street, London, S.W. CONTENTS. PAGE. Serbia's Position 3 Russia's Position 6 Germany's Position 6 Italy's Position 8 Germany's Selected Moment 8 Peace Thwarted by Germany 10 I. Attempt to Extend Time-Limit of Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum 11 II. Question of Delay of Hostilities between Austria-Hungary and Serbia 11 III. Suggested Mediation by the Four Powers 12 IV. Germany Asked to State Form of Mediation between Russia and Austria-Hungary 13 V. Russia Suggests Direct Negotiations with Austria-Hungary 14 VI. Russia's Final Attempt at Peace 15 German Militarism Wins 17 How France Came In 19 How Great Britain Came In 19 War with Austria 22 Japan's Ultimatum to Germany 22 Allies' Declaration of Common Policy 23 Turkey Joins Germany 24 More German Intrigues 26 The Near East 26 The Far East 27 West Africa 28 South Africa 28 How the Germans Make War 29 Germany's Attempted Bribery 36 APPENDIXES.