Tabs
... I did not enlighten him.
Monday August 3rd
To-day has been far too exciting to enable me to feel at all like sleep -- in fact it is one of the most thrilling I have ever lived through,without doubt there are many more to come. That which has been so long anticipated by some & scoffed at by others has come to pass at last -- Armageddon in Europe! On Saturday evening German declared war upon Russia & also started advancing towards the French frontier. The French, in order to make it evident that they were not the aggressors, wasted some hours & then the order to mobilise was given. Great excitement in France continued throughout the night & yesterday the Germans attacked France without declaring war. Unconfirmed rumour says that in one place they have been repulsed with heavy losses. They also broke a treaty in occupying the neutral Duchy of Luxembourg. Luxembourg's neutrality was guaranteed in 1807 by England, France & Germany, & thus Germany's attack upon it is said to be a direct challenge to Great Britain. Some of the papers seem to think that the Austrian-Servian war was only and & that Germany was at the bottom of the whole affair -- the "mailed fist" anxious to strike. At any rate Germany has destroyed the tottering hopes