Saturday 25 July 1914

British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey proposed submitting the question of the Austro-Russian conflict to a mediation conference in London, with Britain, France, Germany and Italy to participate. The proposal was quickly rejected by Berlin on the 27th, and by Vienna on the 28th. 

The first German warship sailed through the newly-widened Kiel Canal, which improved Germany's capability to move ships safely to and from the Baltic and North Seas. The head of German intelligence at Koenigsberg in East Prussia reported that there were unusually long exchanges of coded messages between the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Russian wireless station at Bobryusk during the preceding night. 

The BMCRC Meeting held at Brooklands Several Records were broken dispite a strong breeze.