At the Wilhelmstrasse, the position was described to me as follows: “Austria will reply to Russia’s partial mobilization with a general mobilization of her army.
The order for a mobilization of the army and navy was signed at five o’clock in the afternoon, and was at once given out to the public by a special edition of the Lokalanzeiger.
He was in full possession of all his faculties when he ordered that hasty mobilization which made the cataclysm inevitable.
Assuredly the Staff did not await the order for a general mobilization before concentrating this vanguard at Cologne and Aix-la-Chapelle.
These maxims were in harmony with the old Prussian traditions, as well as with the qualities instilled into the Prussian or Prussianized soldier, and, finally, with the speedy mobilization of the Imperial army.
The German ambassador at St. Petersburg sends us word to-day that a general mobilization of the Russian army and navy had previously been ordered.
As it turned out, a general mobilization was indeed proclaimed in Austria on the night of the 30th.
The German general mobilization had not yet been ordered.
At the first opportunity after mobilization the men should be hardened to cover long distances without loss.
Before mobilization troops should be kept in good physical condition and so practiced as to teach them thoroughly the principles of marching.
The Kaiser's government replied by requesting Russia to cancel her order for the mobilization of part of her army.
Even the arrangements of the military authorities in connexion with the plans of mobilization were utterly deficient in this respect.
By the mobilization of the fleet is meant the placing of naval resources upon a war footing, in readiness in all material and personal respects for hostile operations.
A complete mobilization for purposes of practice in peace time would dislocate seafaring life in a manner which would be justifiable only by actual war.
In his province is the mobilization of the personnel, including the coastguard and the royal naval reserve.
The mobilization of the fleet, both in regard to personnel and material, also falls to him, and among a mass of other business in his department are necessary preparations for the protection of trade and the fisheries.
Consequently, the German crossing of the frontier discovered Belgium with her mobilization but half complete, mainly on a line for the defense of Brussels and Antwerp.
But, during those twelve days, French and British mobilization advanced with hectic speed, while, at the same time, Germany was compelled to transfer ten or perhaps fifteen of her divisions to the eastern theater of war.
On the same day the Prince Regent Alexander signed a decree ordering the general mobilization of the Serbian army.
A fortunate mobilization of the British Grand Fleet in the North Sea for maneuvers shut off the German Grand Fleet from raiding the Channel.
Each army corps was supported by its reserve corps, which showed itself as quick in mobilization and preparation as the active corps.
To this France replied the day after hermobilization by declaring prisoners Germans and Austrians then to be found on her territory.
This mobilization of the forces of the pen and of the caduceus, with which in good truth no other country could compete, has given us additional reason to fear the Empire's powers of organization, no reason to respect it more.
If we wait here until after the mobilization of all the German forces, and are unable to send a message to mother, she will be frantic.
The German government has given orders that all foreigners now in Germany must remain until mobilization is completed.
We only decided to declare war on Russia in the face of the Russian mobilization and to prevent a Russian invasion.
Mobilization there went forward, it is claimed, more smoothly than had been anticipated, but not rapidly enough to enable adequate forces to be dispatched in time against the German military flood.
I stated that if in the course of the Austro-Serbian quarrel Russia were to mobilize, Germany would at once answer by general mobilization and war.
They had hoped to frustrate the mobilization order, retard Russia's entry into the field, and possibly bring about civil strife.
The earliest impression which German mobilization left upon the Allies was that of the preventive character of this war.
The date fixed for the German mobilizationwas July 31.
The explanation given by the newspaper staff was that they were expecting an order for general mobilization and had prepared a special Supplement announcing it.
The resuscitation of the Balkan League and the mobilization of its forces against Turkey was an enterprise from which the greatest statesmen of the nineteenth century, were they living, would have recoiled.
The German system of mobilization had been quicker than the French and Russian, but the opening moves filled the Allied commanders with too-confident hopes.
Upon the hasty though not unexpected order for mobilization these men nobly responded to the call.
For purposes of mobilization they were entrusted to the Tynemouth Territorials of the Royal Garrison Artillery, who held the honour of being first in precedence of all the several groups of this branch of the Service.
Grey added the item of information that Russia had ordered a partial mobilization "which has not hitherto led to any corresponding steps by other Powers, so far as our information goes.
Russia had been preparing for war ever since 1909, and the Russian and French General Staffs had come to a formal understanding that Russian mobilization should be held equivalent to a declaration of war.
Russian mobilization was begun in the spring of 1914, under the guise of "tests," and these tests were carried on continuously to the outbreak of the war.
Preparations for general mobilization will be proceeded with if this proposal is rejected by Austria,' wrote Sir George Buchanan.
This was answered on the same day by a proclamation of Kriegsgefahr at Berlin, 'as it can only be against Germany that Russian general mobilization is directed'.
But on July 27, Russia had explained that her mobilizationwould in no sense be directed against Germany, and would only take place if Austrian forces crossed the Servian frontier.
The only explanation actually vouchsafed was that this had been asked to prevent Russia pleading that all her mobilization was only directed against Austria.
The military attaché then pointed to these mobilization measures against Austria-Hungary as extremely menacing also for Germany.
The same day the first news of Russian mobilization reached Berlin in the evening.
New roads and railways have been constructed to accelerate the mobilization of the war strength; and, above all, strategic railways have been pushed towards the western frontier.
But when on July 29th Russia mobilized the southern districts no grounds for German mobilization had yet been provided.
Before this telegram reached its destination, the mobilization of all the Russian forces, obviously directed against us and already ordered during the afternoon of the 31st of July, was in full swing.
Upon inquiry into the object of the mobilization against Austria-Hungary, the Russian Minister of War replied by shrugging his shoulders and referring to the diplomats.
Servia proved that she well knew that they were insufficient to satisfy the legitimate demands of Austria-Hungary by the fact that before making her offer she had ordered mobilization and retirement of Government from Belgrade.
June 18 President calls many militia units to the federal service for duty on the frontier and inmobilization camps.
Their mobilization was at Smithville, back along the railroad about twenty miles, and if they've sent any force to Hardport, the railroad will show it.
There the authorities explained to us the general nature of the organization for rapid mobilization which had been developed under the great von Moltke, and subsequently carried farther.
The difficulty was got over by the organization of eighteen of the ninety-nine into training brigades, and the additional men needed for the mobilization of eighty-one fighting batteries were thus obtained.
Our naval arrangements and our new military organization were ready, and our mobilization plans were fairly complete, as the German General Staff knew from their military attaché.
Such was the platform upon which our nation stood before the world when the first orders went forth for the mobilization of its forces for war.
So ill prepared were the French in their mobilization plans that they actually summoned to arms the men who were to man the railways, and the railways themselves were deficient in rolling-stock to move the troops.
A brief one would be: French mobilization plans were imperfect, and, therefore, Belgium could not be defended by the French.
Many bankers lost three fourths of their staff when the mobilization orders were issued, and all over Paris the banks are closed from twelve to two because of the limitations of the staff.
The French had been warned many months publicly and privately that their mobilization plans would be found faulty in case of sudden hostilities.
On the first day of mobilization I traveled to Magdeburg to say farewell to my husband, who was leaving for France.
When he came into the barracks yard swinging his cap aloft and shouting the news that mobilization had begun there was not even a cheer.
By Thursday you will find that openmobilization on both sides has begun.
All the laughs had been tremendous since mobilization had begun in earnest, and the atmosphere was like the suspense before a thunder-storm breaks.
But I may say that we should strike beforemobilization is complete.
Can you guarantee that every war of every Slav republic would have for a correlative the mobilization of the entire world?
How many times the French people had thought of that mobilization during the last twenty years, in proportion as Germany grew more aggressive, more brutal and more insulting!
Lauzanne, as a First Lieutenant of the French Army, joined the colors in the first days of mobilization and surrendered the pen for the sword.
We must organize the industrialmobilization as perfectly as the military mobilization.
In effect, then, disasters create the conditions for the more efficient utilization of material resources and the more effective mobilization of human resources.
Decisions may include such possibilities as the mobilization of National Guard and U.
In the guerrilla and occupied zones, a genuine levée en masse has been accomplished; in the free areas, safeguards which hedge Mobilization have robbed it of utility save that which is strictly military.
The Mass Mobilization is under the Training Department of the Military Affairs Commission; useful as a military device, its political character is slight in Free China.
To mobilize the activities of youth according to the National General Mobilization Act.
The network of national controlment is completed by the mobilization of the control committees to be sent out to make inspections, so that corruption may be eliminated and law and order enforced.
