North Sea: News from Bethmann that he and England are working to localise the conflict keeping Russia out of it give the Kaiser and his staff an optimistic picture. The Kaiser even talks of going to his next holiday location.
He continues his marginal comments on dispatches saying in regard to Grey’s comment a country that accepted the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum would cease to be an independent state, “Serbia is not a state in the European sense, but a band of robbers”. He is not willing join in the four power mediation proposed by Grey.