Friday 25 July 2014

23 July 1914



100 years ago today: the naval fleet continues its war exercises at Dover with the long line of destroyers described as “presenting a picture black and menacing”.  There is concern that the King’s conference, now on its second day, is on the “verge of collapse” as both sides remain unyielding and an agreement is felt to be an impossibility.  The Hungarian Premier has postponed his response regarding Servia and in the Press the “approaching crisis is spoken of in language of increasing gravity”.  The Deutsch Courier states that “every intelligent man must see that a world-war must come some day.”

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