THE GRAND SMASH In the latter part of July the Pages took a small house at Ockham, in Surrey, and here they spent the fateful week that preceded the outbreak of war.

The Ambassador's emotions on this event are reflected in a memorandum written on Sunday, August 2nd--a day that was full of negotiations, ultimatums, and other precursors of the approaching struggle.
Bachelor's Farm, Ockham, Surrey.
Sunday, August 2, 1914.
The Grand Smash is come.

Last night the German Ambassador at St.
Petersburg handed the Russian Government a declaration of war.

To-day the German Government asked the United States to take its diplomatic and consular business in Russia in hand.

Herrick, our Ambassador in Paris, has already taken the German interests there.
It is reported in London to-day that the Germans have invaded Luxemburg and France.
Troops were marching through London at one o'clock this morning.