1.35 A.M. next day: Tschirschky sends fuller report of his discussions with the Austro-Hungarian leaders before and after his first call with Stumm.
He says “I begged [them] to bear in mind the incalculable consequences of a rejection of mediation”.
In the last paragraph he states “Conrad von Hotzendorf this evening was to submit the order for general mobilisation to the Emperor as the answer to the measures already taken by Russia. It was not quite certain whether in the present situation mobilisation was still the right course”.