The story in Mr. Warburton's own words follows "Some days before I left Petersburg Grand Duke Alexander, who by his marriage to Grand Duchess Zeni the brother-in-law of the Tear, came to that city to take command of his regiment. At the palace on the Moika be told me that shortly before the war broke out, when both the Russian and German armies were mobilizing, the German Emperor telegraphed the Tsar a personal message in which he offered, if Russia would cease her mobilization of the army, to stop mobilizing his own. promise,' the message ran, on the word of a soldier.'
"On the strength of this the Tsar instructed Suchomlinoff, ter of War, that he wished al! movements of troops at once to cease. The lister of War expressed his doubts regarding the honesty of the German Emperor, but the Tsar pointed out that the Kaiser's message was a personal assurance and insisted that mo bilization cease. Eight hours later, after mobilization had been entirely halted, the Tsar learned from his embassy in Berlin that, according to orders issued by the German Emperor himself, efforts to mobilize the German army had been doubled.
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