FRANCE AND GERMANY.
FRENCH" MINISTER AND GERMAN AMBASSADOR. PARIS, August 2. Tho Russian Ambassador informed M. Viviani of Germany's declaration of war. It 13 understood tbn- M. Viviani told Baron Yon Schoonn, German Ambassador. ''You are mobilising. We knrwit. Therefore, the action of your Government has dictated ours. We aro compelled to take similar precautions, hut our peaceful intentions arc unchanged, whereof tho best proof is that v.-c havo not summoned Parliament." The Ambassador replied that he feared incidents on tho frontier. M. Viviani pointed out that French troops were not within five miles of the frontier while the Germans were at the very frontier. Foreigners have been notified that they rn'iFt leave within the first day of' inoH:!.isa»ion. otherwise they will require i>a?Fports. Foreigners, exccpfrig Austrians, may remain iv Paris on special permit. Austrians will be sent to special depots on tho western frontier, and thence allowed to leave by neutral frontier. All motor-bufcs havo been commandeered to service in transporting food for the Army.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 15037, 4 August 1914, Page 9
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