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Show KAISER IS BLAMED AS CAUSE OF WAR London, Sept 16, 7:40 p. m The foreign office issued this evening. In the form of a white paper, the report re-port of Sir Maurice de Bunsen, late British ambassador at Vienna, on the rupture of diplomatic relations with Austria, in which the ambassador declares de-clares that Austria and Russia had about reached an agreement on the Austro-Servian dispute when their conversations were cut short by the transfer of the dispute to the more dangerous ground of a direct conflict between Germans and Russia. The ambassador says that although two days previously he had refused to consent to the continuance of the conversations at St Petersburg. Count Von Berchtold, the Austro-Hun garlan minister of foreign affairs, on July 30, although Russia had been partially mobilized, agreed In a most friendly manner that the conversations conversa-tions should be continued. "From now onward' says the ambassador, am-bassador, "the tension between Ger many and Russia was much greater than between Austria and Russia, a-s between the latter an arrangement seemed almost in sight, and on August Au-gust 1 1 was Informed by Count Schebeko, the Russian ambassador, that Count Szapary, Austrian ambas sador at St. Petersburg, had at last conceded the main point of issue by announcing to the Russian foreign minister, M. Sazonoff, that Austria would consent to submit to mediation the points in the note to Servia which seemed incompatible with the maintenance of Servian Independence "M. Sazonoff had accepted this proposal pro-posal on condition that Austria would refrain from actual invasion of Servia. Ser-via. Austria, in fact, had fully yielded, yield-ed, and that she herself, at this point, had good hopes of a peaceful issue Is shown by the communication made to you on the 1st of August by Count Mensdorff ( Austrian ambassador ambas-sador at London), that Austria had neither 'banged the door' on compromise compro-mise nor cut off the conversations. "Count Schebeko to the end was working hard for peace, lie was employing em-ploying the most conciliatory language to Count Von Berchtold. and he Informed In-formed ine that the latter, as well as Count Forgach, had responded In the same spirit. Certainly it was too much lor Russia to expect that Austria Aus-tria would hold back her armies. But this matter probably could have been settled by negotiations, and Count Schebeko repeatedly told me that he was favorable to the acceptance or any reasonable compromise Unfortunately Unfor-tunately these conversations at St Petersburg and Vienna were cut short |