[Footnote 37: Austria declined conversations on July 28 (_Correspondence_, No. 93); but for conversations of July 31 see _Correspondence_, No. III; of August I, see Appendix V.] [Footnote 38: _Correspondence_, No. 70 (I). M. Sazonof to Russian Ambassador at Berlin, July 28.] [Footnote 39: _Correspondence_, No. 72. Sir G. Buchanan to Sir E. Grey, July 28.] [Footnote 40: German White Book, pp. 43, 45 (in Appendix I, _infra_).] [Footnote 41: _Correspondence_, No. 76. Sir E. Goschen to Sir E. Grey, July 29.] [Footnote 42: German White Book, p. 42, Exhibit 17 (_infra_, Appendix I).] [Footnote 43: _Correspondence_, No. 105 (Enclosure 3), July 30.] [Footnote 44: German White Book, p. 7; the date of the warning seems to be July 27.] [Footnote 45: German White Book, p. 40, Exhibit II.] [Footnote 46: _Ibid_. p. 9.] [Footnote 47: _Ibid_. p. 10.] [Footnote 48: _Correspondence_, No. 85. Sir E. Goschen to Sir E. Grey, July 29.] [Footnote 49: _Ibid_. No. 101. Sir E. Grey to Sir E. Goschen, July 30.] [Footnote 50: _Correspondence_, No. 123. Sir E. Grey to Sir E. Goschen, Aug. 1.] [Footnote 51: _Ibid_. No. 105. Sir E. Grey to Sir F. Bertie, July 30.] [Footnote 52: _Ibid_. No. 119. Sir E. Grey to Sir F. Bertie, July 31.] [Footnote 53: _Ibid_. No. 114, 120, 122.] [Footnote 54: _Ibid_. No. 148. Sir E. Grey to Sir F. Bertie, Aug. 2.] [Footnote 55: _Ibid_. No. 153. Sir E. Grey to Sir E. Goschen, Aug. 4.] [Footnote 56: _Ibid_. No. 159. Sir E. Grey to Sir E. Goschen, Aug. 4] CHAPTER V NEGOTIATORS AND NEGOTIATIONS For purposes of reference the following list of _dramatis personae_ may be useful:-- GREAT BRITAIN: King George V, _succ_. 1910. _Foreign Secretary_: Sir Edward Grey. _Ambassadors from France_: M. Paul Cambon. _Russia_: Count Benckendorff. _Germany_: Prince Lichnowsky. _Austria_: Count Albert Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein. _Belgium_: Count A. de Lalaing (_Minister_). RUSSIA: Emperor Nicholas II, _succ_. 1894. _Foreign Secretary_: M. Sazonof. _Ambassadors from Great Britain_: Sir George Buchanan. _France_: M. Paléologue. _Germany_: Count Pourtalès. _Austria_: Friedrich Count Szápáry. FRANCE: Raymond Poincaré, _President, elected_ 1913. _Premier_: M. Viviani. _Acting Foreign Secretary_: M. Doumergue. _Ambassadors from Great Britain_: Sir Francis Bertie. _Russia_: M. Isvolsky. M. Sevastopoulo (_Charge d'Affaires_). _Germany_: Baron von Schoen. _Austria_: Count Scézsen. GERMANY: Emperor William II, _succ_. 1888. _Imperial Chancellor_: Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg. _Foreign Secretary_: Herr von Jagow. _Ambassadors from Great Britain_: Sir Edward Goschen. Sir Horace Rumbold (_Councillor_). _Russia:_ M. Swerbeiev. M. Bronewsky (_Charge d'Affaires_). _France:_ M. Jules Cambon. _Austria_: Count Ladislaus Szögyény-Marich.