Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1914, Supplement, The World War

File No. 763.72/22

The Chargé d’Affaires in Russia (Wilson) to the Secretary of State

American Embassy,
St. Petersburg, July 30, 1914, 3 p.m.
[Received 1:01 p.m.]

[Telegram]

Mobilization decree issued. Most embassies and legations are informing their governments that they consider war inevitable and I hold same opinion. German and Austrian Embassies are packed and ready to leave any moment.

Wilson