A few days later the German official organ _Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung_ and the semi-official _Kölnische Zeitung_ published the following report of the explosion. "According to the statement of the Governor of Warsaw it was caused by revolutionaries. No proof of this was forthcoming, therefore it was ascribed to lightning, and as nobody believed this explanation--there was not a cloud on the sky at the time--the guilt remained finally with the revolutionaries. "Now it has been proved, not to the satisfaction of the Russian authorities of course, that Russian officers of high rank blew the magazine up, because they would have to supply the troops with ammunition after the mobilization--and the ammunition was not there. The money for the same had found its way into the officers' pockets." On July 30th the _Vossische Zeitung_ announced: "To-day even more alarming news has been in the air than in the last few days. The _Lokal Anzeiger_ stated during the afternoon that an order for the mobilization of the army and navy had been signed by the Kaiser. On making inquiries in official quarters, we were informed that the 'news' is false. At three o'clock Wolff's Bureau issued an official _dementi_: 'We have received an official statement to the effect that the news published in an extra edition of the _Berliner Lokal Anzeiger_ that the Kaiser had ordered the general mobilization is untrue.' Great excitement was caused by the _Lokal Anzeiger's_ announcement, and the public visibly disquieted." The above report refers, of course, to incidents which happened on the preceding day. The 30th of July was marked by the suppression of three Berlin papers, including the _Berliner Neuester Nachrichten_, for divulging the fact that the 1st, 5th and 17th Army Corps had been mobilized. An account of this _faux pas_ appeared on July 31st in the _Kreuz Zeitung_ and concluded, after denying the truth of the mobilization, with the following paragraph: "If bodies of troops have been moved to various points of our Eastern frontier, then it only means the so-called frontier protection (_Grenzschutz_), which has been made necessary by our Eastern neighbour strengthening his customary frontier guards by troops of the line. Frontier protection is not generally intended to prevent a serious attack, but means rather a kind of police action." Two other passages will suffice to illuminate the mobilization question. "Yesterday Russia gave official notification in Vienna and Berlin of mobilization against Austria. Is it to be wondered at that a feeling of disquietude is spreading throughout all classes of the nation. By delay on our side, valuable military advantages may be lost if the people once suspect that there is an absence of that firmness and joy of responsibility (_Verantwortungsfreudigkeit_) which marked the action of the Austrian Government and was hailed with jubilation by the German nation.