As the hours before Serbia’s answer to Austria’s ultimatum ticked away five-teen hundred children from the Clayton and Bradford districts were being entertained in Platt Field’s Park park on a free outing listening to the St Joseph’s Industrial school brass band.
Three men were in the dock in Manchester after a scuffle in an empty house in Strangeways. The three, after being arrested, declined to give their names and neither would they account for a tin trunk and its contents found in their possession, when they appeared in the dock.
There were still hopes for peace between Serbia and Austria,it was reported that Austria would give the Serbs more time to respond to the note and had not fixed a time when any hostilities would begin.
The German government said that it fully approved of the note being sent and of its contents and hoped that the discussion would just remain between the two parties.
From St Petersburg, the Russian ministerial council was meeting to considered the demands, and while it was reported that Russia was angry with the Austrian demands, it was said that they favored diplomacy as a solution.
The French President, who was on a state visit to St Petersburg, had been telegraphed the contents of the letter,while in Belgrade it was reported that preparations were being made to evacuate the city while Serbia was reported to be mobilizing its army.
There were patriotic demonstrations in Vienna with bands constantly playing the national anthem as the country awaited the response
Back in Manchester was announced that the Third Earl of Ellesmere, who had died earlier in the month, had left an estate of £250,000.
The forthcoming war, would of course, see the beginning of the demise of the old order.
