Austria-Hungary declaration of war on Serbia, noon, July 1914

XXXVII. Count Berchtold to the Royal Serbian Foreign Office, Belgrade.

Telegram

Vienna, July 28, 1914

The Royal Serbian Government having failed to give a satisfactory reply to the note which was handed to it by the Austrian-Hungarian Minister in Belgrade on July 23, 1914, the Imperial and Royal Government is compelled to protect its own rights and interests by a recourse to armed force.

Austria-Hungary, therefore considers herself from now on to be in the state of war on Serbia.