Russian mobilisation
Extract from a dispatch from Colonel Alfred Knox regarding the preparations for mobilisation in Russia, 4 August 1914.

Tsar Nicholas II ordered a general mobilisation of the Russian army on 30 July 1914. Two days later, Germany declared war on Russia. This despatch to the War Office from Colonel Knox, the British military attaché in St Petersburg, gives an optimistic account of the early stages of Russian mobilisation. Knox comments on the 'excellent' mood among the Russian people and concludes that 'there is no doubt that the war is a popular one'.
Catalogue reference: WO 106/1044 (4 Aug 1914)

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