We are satisfied she would apologize to Austria if we requested it.

But our aims go beyond.

We demand that instead of the proposed Turkish treaty the Balkan states shall come into union with Turkey under the influence of Austria.

To accomplish this we must accept no apology, but must punish Servia.

We are satisfied that Russia is in no financial or military position to interfere." Germany with its enormous spy system had secured copies of the confidential state papers of the Czar and transmitted them to Vienna.
In these were warnings, statistics, and compilations showing all the financial and military weaknesses of Russia: that her great gold reserve had been largely loaned out and was not available cash on hand, as the world had been led to believe; that it would take eighteen months more of preparation to place her military forces in position to defend the country; that her arms and the factories to build them were not ready.
The plans of Austria and Germany were to line up the Balkan states, under German political and trade influences, and then within two years to have it out with Russia and again impose the German tariffs upon her.