Wasted efforts. The Triple Alliance in action. Kaisers Wilhelm of Germany and Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary try to drag their partner Italy into war. Italy declared its neutrality on August 3, 1914 after concluding it was not bound to join Austria-Hungary in its war against Serbia because it was not defensive.
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"An Anglo-French squadron has bombarded the advanced forts of the Dardanelles.In Armenia the Russians have carried by storm the fortress of Bayazid which commands the road to Van. They began their campaigns of 1828 and 1877 in the same way.England is annexing the Island of Cyprus, which she has occupied since 1878 in accordance with the terms of her alliance with Turkey.In northern France and Belgium the Germans are exhausting themselves in frantic and furious efforts to force their way through to Calais."
Entry from the memoirs of Maurice Paléologue, French Ambassador to Russia, for Thursday, November 5, 1914 relating the latest war news. France and Great Britain declared war on Turkey the same day, and the first three paragraphs record actions by the Entente Allies against Turkey. In France and Belgium, German troops were trying to break the Allied line in the Battle of Flanders, the battle for Calais and the other ports on the English Channel.
An Ambassador's Memoirs Vol. I by Maurice Paléologue, 180, 181, publisher: George H. Doran Company, publication date: 1925
1914-11-05, Armenia, Van, Turkey enters the war, November, 1914
