Afternoon: London receives a wire from Rodd in Rome
Posted on July 26th, 1914 by admin
Afternoon: London receives a wire from Rodd in Rome. He says Italy will be neutral in the event of a conflict between Austria-Hungary and Russia.
It has not been consulted by Austria-Hungary and the move against Serbia amounts to a deliberate provocation of Russia. Italy believes in these circumstances the alliance with Austria-Hungary and Germany, the Triple Alliance, does not oblige it to support Austria-Hungary.