Morning: Austria has still made no move to fight Russia and that afternoon Bethmann will be explaining to the Reichstag that Germany is forced to go to war to defend its Austro-Hungarian ally.
He wires Vienna: “We have been compelled to go to war on account of Austria’s procedure, and have a right to expect that Austria should not seek to hide this fact, but will openly announce that the threat of interference in the Serbian conflict is forcing Austria to go to war”.