WAR WITH AUSTRIA.
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From now onwards we were definitely allied with France in defence of Belgium's neutrality.
At 6 p.m. on August 6, 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Russia.
On August 12 Sir Edward Grey was compelled to inform Count Mensdorff (Austro-Hungarian Ambassador in London) at the request of the French Government, that a complete rupture having occurred between France and Austria, a state of war between Great Britain and Austria would be declared from midnight of August 12.