Sir Henry Wilson - Diary entry for 27th July

Diaries of the Director of Military Operations for the British Army

On the 27th Wilson wrote:

"A lot of dispatches in all day, but no sign of Germany mobilising, so I think there will not be any war. Meanwhile, after some fuss about gun-running at Howth yesterday, 2 companies K.O.S.B.s  were mobbed in the streets of Dublin and fired on the mob, killing 3 and wounding 40. This is a further upset for the Government. Panouse  told me this afternoon that the Austrian Ambassador in Paris had told the French Foreign Minister that the Austrians would move tomorrow."