"This" the Grand Duke said, was told me this morning by the Tsar. It is only too evident that my brother-in-law was tricked by the German Emperor.' He used the French word chiqued. It is bad enough, the Grand Duke said, to break the word of an emperor, but William broke the word of a soldier.
August 20 Suchomlinoff himself not knowing that I had heard this story from the Grand Duke Alexander, told me exactly the same story, only adding that from the first he believed that the German Emperor by ao dishonest trick was trying to gain time."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.