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    By order of his most Royal Highness King Skanderberg II of Albania the albanian army is to enter a state of Extended Mobilization. As much as it hurts the core of our Majesty's soul we must do our part in this conflict and assist with re-establishing peace and prosperity throughout Europe

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    Call to Belgium and a sign of good will

    All Europe is taking up arms and is about to march into hell, the free Spanish nation is not willing to sit defenceless and has therefore called his sons to arms. We only intend to take defensive measures and are not interested to attack our neighbours !

    His Majesty has ordered that the recent actions at the Gibraltar Straight will come to an end, all nations and their navies will be allowed to pass through.





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    The Serbian army un-masses from the Austrian border.

    Serbian High command announced today that the army will begin moving away from the Austrian border and returning to regular duties. No further comment was given.

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    The Ottoman Empire call off their peace conference.

    Romania severs all trade with Belgium.

    Denmark is removed from the Scandinavian Pact.

    Serbia joins the treaty of Sevastopol.

    The Russian Empire and her allies declare war upon the German Empire!

    Spain refuses to enter the war.

    Serbia issues extended mobilisation.

    The Kingdom of Italy declares war on the Entente powers!

    Serbia and the Ottoman Empire sign a Non-Aggression pact.

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland declares war on The Netherlands!

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland fire upon Norwegian warships!

    Spain issues extended mobilisation.

    The Austrian-Hungarian Empire declares war on the Entente powers!

    The Kingdom of Romania declares war on the German Empire and sack Berlin!

    Albania issues extended mobilisation.


    Great European War.

    Europe had utterly descended into chaos. The slaughter of thousands now lay before her as the Third Schleswig War evolved into the Great European War. Propaganda machines in all nations were hard at work selling the war, blaming the other side for starting it. In the Entente the popular motto “Denmark is our Friend” became a popular header for posters, whilst the Triple Alliance favoured the “Lies of the French started this”. In the back rooms of the political machine that had dragged Europe into the war it was clear what had caused the war. Appeasement attempts between Germany and France, almost made public by Germany had Entente presses not been banned from publishing, had gone south over Denmark. Now Europe stood to tear itself apart. The Ottoman Empire’s peace conference had not even begun before it was called off over the sudden and bloody escalation of events.

    Russia’s entry into the war on the 7th August 1914 marked the starting of events that German high command had feared. Germany now faced a war on three fronts. Russia’s allies, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece and Serbia, were swift to follow her into the war. As par the Treaty of Sevastopol their entry into the war was bound to Russia’s declaration. Not long after on the 9th the Kingdom of Italy finally chose to defend her ally and declared war upon the Entente. Her entry into the war had not been easy. The Parliament in Roman had been almost perfectly split between those wishing to join the Entente and those wishing to defend Germany. Public opinion was also very split and a number of protests and strike broke out soon after the declaration. The final member of the triple alliance, who appeared set to watch matters unfold, showed his colours as an Austro-Hungarian Submarine, SM U-3, sank the Teakwood, a British merchant vessel, as it made its way past Cyprus. As the protocols of war the Submarine had surfaced in order to bring the vessel to a halt and let the crew disembark before sinking it, giving away the Sub’s nationality.

    In the United Kingdom the Government had been given a stirn wake up call by the sinking of the HMS Drake and Goldfinch and lately the beginning of sinking of merchant vessels in the Mediterranean, such as the Teakwood, by Austria-Hungary and Italy, the public cry for war was deafening. Volunteers flooded enlistment stations in their thousands. Britain was stirring herself from her slumber to answer France and Belgium’s calls. When Spain attempted to start controlling ship movement through straits of Gibraltar all it took was a simple warning for Spain to back off without hesitation. It was to be in Berlin however, that one of the greatest shocks in Europe was unfolding.





    Fire and Metal

    Both sides were still reeling from the brutal carnage of the prior month. Such had been the carnage that neither side were willing to launch any offensives. The entire line was quiet save for sporadic skirmishes, shelling and sniper fire. This calm was met with little joy on either side, such and been the losses of last month. It was to be at sea however that the war took at new turn.

    Following the Dutch victory at Battle of the Western Scheldt Estuary their navy had set off in pursuit of the Marinecomponent. The Marine nationale let them past without incident, save for the shouting of a few choice words, and the Dutchmen set off in pursuit of their prize. As they gave chase and drew closer they were intercepted by a large Destroyer Division of the Royal Navy and halted. As the now vastly outnumbered vessels now waited they began to become more and more aware of the British numbers and positioning, as well as the sudden arrival of the Marinecomponent. At 17:00 on the 13th August the Dutch government received a declaration of war from the United Kingdoms in defense of Belgium. At that exact same moment the British Destroyers and Marinecomponent fired upon the helpless Dutch ships. As the fleet was blown to pieces the commander of the Dutch fleet struck his colours at 17:10 and surrendered the fleet for impoundment to the U.K. In all the Koninklijke Marine lost the HNLMS Sumatra, HNLMS De Ruyter, HNLMS Assahan, HMLMS Vos and HMLS Hermelijn either sunk outright or damaged beyond saving and sunk after their crews had been taken off deck. In one fell swoop the UK had removed the Dutch from the seas without any losses.



    Tempestuous Seas and a Steam Roller

    The war has gone beyond the point of saving. No longer was it able to simply be called the “Third Schleswig War”, a title that lent itself to a Germanic - Danish war only. Such had been the escalation that the war had been given a new name: “The Great European War”. On the front that it all started though, things were still. The German advance had halted. This did not however mean there was no war and Copenhagen was subject to a brutal naval bombardment by the Kaiserliche Marine. This barbaric bombardment shook the city to its core killing hundreds of civilians, men, women and children alike. The Søværnet at anchor also took a hammering; KDM Iver Hvitfeldt and KDM Ingolf were both crippled in the bombardment. Closer to the German border, after enduring starvation and constant bombardment the 4. And 6. Infanteri Divisons finally surrendered to German forces. 76 thousand men were taken as P.O.Ws as the final front line forts gave in.

    In Lorraine and Franche-Comté and Liège things were also completely silent. Both nation’s high commands still reeling from the sheer blood loss of the previous month. Now both sides, with British Forces now joining the French in Liège, took to work digging in like ticks. Trench networks begun to slowly spread out across the front. With neither side making any moves and both sides digging both sides seem set to attempt to wear the other side down with raw will power alone. Both sides did not stop shelling one another though.

    On the Eastern Front the awakening of the Russian bear was not taken as seriously as it should have been by commanders in East Prussia. The Russian regular forces were mobilised and on the offensive in no less and 3 days after their declaration. The 1-ya Armeyskaya Gruppa, under the command of General ot Kavalerii Pavel Karlovich Rennenkampf, smashed into the German I. and XXI. Armeekorps as well as 5 Reserve-Divisions with destructive effect. The Russian 1-ya Gvardeyskaya Pekhotnaya Diviziya proved exceptional in its offensive, smashing aside the 19. Infanterie-Division and 11. Bayerische Infanterie-Division with little effort and turning much of the Germany’s Northern flank.The front quickly caved in to the Russian onslaught as the great tide of men stormed towards Königsberg. It wasn’t until German reinforcements from the XIV. Armeekorps and 7., 19. and 12. Reserve-Divisions came to the aid of current german forces that the Russian advance could be halted. Though unable to capture Königsberg by the end of the month, due to the unflinching defense of the remnants of the 11. Bayerische Infanterie-Division and 34. Reserve-Division, they were able to utterly surround the city and began a relentless bombardment. The offensive had been a Russian victory with Germany suffering 19 thousand casualties to Russia's 11 thousand.



    Italy's entry into the war was also marked by the rapid offensive. The 1° Regio Esercito Italiano begun their offensive into France across the Alps. As the men of the 1° - 4°Corpo d'Armata begun their painstaking advance up into the Alps things seemed to be going well enough. Progress was slow but unopposed. As they drew closer to one of the easier passed into France the whole thing went up in a massive explosion. Snow and rocks came crashing down onto the lead elements of the Italian forces crushing a number of men and cutting off the advance. Out of almost nowhere french Alpine units begun to fire upon the Italian forces driving them back down the mountains as artillery fire begun to hounded them when rifles could no longer. Though the losses were minimal the moral effect of was strongly felt on the Italians as their fire move of the was was so easily thrown back. Along the coastline Italian forces fared little better. Fearing the possibility of Italian invasion the French had viciously dug and created a vast trench system and was now fit to bursting with troops from the IIe Armée. The Italian commander General Armando Diaz upon learning of this defied his orders and refused to assault the French position, much to the relief of his men. Italian losses were only 3 thousand to France’s 4 hundred.

    In North Africa however the Italian Regio Esercito delle Colonie fared far better than their European counterparts. Swiftly entering into eastern Morocco and sticking close to the cost they advanced unhampered for a few days across the deserts. Soon enough though they met their local forces that begun to harry them on their advance in hit and run style attacks. Though the losses in men and material were minimal, General Luigi Capello, fearing that these forces were simply the vanguard of a larger force slowed his advance greatly. Both he and his staff, like General Diaz, and heard of the slaughters in June and was very unwilling to commit his force to a battle that might see the Italian forces thrown out of Africa as soon as they had arrived. Losses were a mere italians 67 men.

    Battle of Jutland

    In the Kattegat and Skagerrak straits the war at sea took to a new scale never seen or predicted before. On the morning of the 19th August a Sjøforsvaret Destroyer Division sighted the largest naval armada in history made of the Royal Navy and Marine Nationale numbering almost 400 vessels of all classes. As they cruised their way towards the Norwegian Division shadowed them closely. Without any warning the British screen vessel fired upon them. Though the shells flew over the Destroyers, a clear show that they could still be sunk if they engaged and fled, the message was extremely to the point. The Norwegian vessels swiftly withdrew from their shadowing. Ahead of this armada the Royal Navy had a sight screen of Light Cruisers and Destroyers all kitted out for anti-submarine action. Having learnt their lesson last time these vessels moved deliberately almost as if they were attempting to detect the underwater menesses, not that that was yet possible. As the Grand Fleet approached the straits the screens gave way to the heavier vessels and took positions on the flanks and rear, ever cautious. By 17:23 the fleet begun it’s maneuvers into the Kattegat straits from the Skagerrak straits. To their horror two of the leading vessels the Casque and HMS Bat struck mines, removing them from action but failing to sink or cripple. Swiftly French minesweeper were sent forwards to get to work under the watchful eyes of the Dreadnaughts of the Royal Navy. It was swiftly discovered that only a small number of mines had been laid close to the Danish coast and that the remainder of the way was clear. Avoiding the few mines that there were the fleet steamed ahead, right into the jaws of the awaiting Kaiserliche Marine, or so they thought. The Fleet refused to advance further and instead begun to engage the German vessels from across the narrow channels between Denmark, Læsø and Sweden refusing to advance any further. Admiral Friedrich von Ingenohl had vastly underestimated his foe, Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe. The French and British Dreadnoughts and Battlecruisers vastly outnumbered the German fleet’s complement and thusly the gun fight appeared to be one sided. However, despite Admiral of the Fleet Rushworth commanding the mighty force, the French had their own orders to follow. Streaming into the narrow pass the Jean Bart lead the heroic charge of the French vessels into what was without a doubt a killing zone. Flanked by a number of fast moving destroyers the mighty Dreadnaught blasted her way forwards into the heart of battle. At 17:31 she was hit by a shell from the SMS Kaiser that finally managed to bring the mighty ship down as it punched through the top armour and detonate the munitions blowing the Jean Bart apart in a biblical blast. This loss did not go unanswered as the escorting Destroyers Protet and Durandal were able to maneuver themselves into position to fire off torpedos in close range to the SMS Kaiserin putting three major holes into her side sinking her. As more and more French vessels poured into the two narrow passes supported by the Royal Navy’s fire the losses on both sides begun to rapidly mount. HMS Ajax was soon lost to concentrated German fire alongside the HMS Monmouth and Rother. Téméraire, Renaudin, Vergniaud and Amiral Aube were soon lost as they made their runs into the pass. SMS Wittelsbach and Wettin were both lost to British fire whilst the SMS Schwalbe, SMS Geier, SMS Breslau, SMS Panther, G108 and S102 were lost to the brutal onslaught of the French Navy.

    By 17:48 the battle was still raging and the losses were only mounting for both sides. It was at this point that the German launched their surprise attack. German submarines that had been lurking in the fjords around the straits came into action behind the Entente fleet. To their horror they had been expected. British Destroyers that had been lurking behind the Fleet set upon them like Jack Russells to a pack of rats. The poor Submarines had thought they had the drop on their foe and had been lured into the awaiting Destroyers. It was clear that the British or French had something that could detect them. U-8, 15, 5, 12 and 21 were all lost without so much as a chance of escape whilst many of the other Submarines took to their heels in the North Sea. Only a brave few remained to carry out their goal. U-7, refusing the turn tail, moved into attack position on HMS Tiger and successful fired off two torpedoes into her side, sinking her. The British were swift at searching out the offending Sub. and U-7 took a depth charge to her front sinking her with all hands. With the surprise attack now thwarted and the French onslaught showing no sign off letting up Admiral Friedrich von Ingenohl begun to lose his nerve. As the SMS Moltke was sunk and SMS Lützow put out of action he begun to pull back his fleet. A terrible mistake. The French navy flooded the gap and brought the full might of her Dreadnaughts to bare upon the Kaiserliche Marine. SMS V161, SMS G145, SMS Medusa, SMS Stuttgart were soon lost, traded for the Chasseur, Montcalm, HMS Nottingham and HMS Spitfire. By 19:12 HMS New Zealand, HMS Hardy, HMS Owl, HMS Shannon, the Jeanne d'Arc, Janissaire, Patrie, Suffren, SMS Wörth, SMS Niobe, SMS V167, SMS G134 and SMS G108 now rested at the bottom. The Battle was done. The Kaiserliche Marine withdrawing from the withering engagement and the Entente now in full control of the seas around Denmark. The final losses, not counting the number of ships that were hit but not sunk, stood as testimony to the lethality of the Battle.

    Sacking of Berlin

    The Battle of Jutland, as great a setback as it was to Germany, was not to be their worst moment of the war for them. On the 27th August 1914, Romanian Trupe De Șoc from the Divizia Ușoară successfully entered Berlin and begun to put the city to the torch. Though Romania’s diplomatic stance was unknown in relation to the ever expanding war, back door dealing had resulting in Germany counting her as an ally. As a result the Romanian troops, carrying orders summoning them to Germany, were able to use the rail networks of both Austria-Hungary and Germany to reach the city. Upon arrival they began to put their plan to work. Unloading from their cars they swiftly moved towards key areas of the city. By marching in neat order singing songs they attracted a lot of attention from the civilian population, but none from local garrison forces. At 14:42 the troops had managed to set themselves up. Not a minute later the trains, and the station, went up in a monumental fire ball. The blast rocked Berlin to the core and killed hundreds right off the bat. Whilst local forces and civil services reeled from the explosion, Romanian forces stormed the Reichskanzlei, Stadtschloss, Wilhelmstraße and Reichstag in quick succession. Alongside these, local barracks, factories, telegraph stations, radio stations and other important infrastructure were captured with little resistances. Such was the speed of events that most of the city was in Romanian hands by the morning of the 28th. Local forces soon took up the offensive in an attempt to take back the city. Troops from the XXV. Armeekorps, along with locally raised Volkssturm put the Romanians quickly on the back foot and prevented them going any further than their previous day's gains. Romanian forces lost 431 men to German losses of 1,765.





    The daring raid had in effect, cut off the head of German command. Captured in the attack were key figures such as: Ministerpräsident Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Kanzler Bernhard Heinrich Karl Martin von Bülow, General der Infanterie Erich von Falkenhayn and Kronprinz Wilhelm von Preußen, but failed to capture Kaiser Wilhelm II who managed to make a daring escape. The whole of the German Empire, as well as a great deal of Europe, was in utter shock at the daringness and zeal of the Romanian operation. Much of the city was put to torch over the next few days, destroying vast amounts of Germany's high command plans, parliamentary documents and general infrastructure. Though Romania has now clearly sided with the Entente powers, many of the politicians in France and the U.K. expressed a large amount of disgust at the operation due to its high civilian casualties.







    The date is now 1st September
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    Dutch Response on The sudden British Declaration of war


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    The Dutch Goverment Responds To the Outragous war declaration
    This Declaration of war For "Defense of Belgium" is Outragous The Dutch Goverment is Fighting a Defensive war making The United Kingdom An Agressor in this war. We See that The United Kingdom has no sense of humanity or reason. This Defensive war that we are fighting is against the Foolish Belgians We have no Quarell with The British Like we mentioned before. And so The British that have no sense of Diplomacy declared war on us and Made themselves an Agressor breaking their own Neutrality declared in this war Earlier.

    The Dutch Goverment Calls for Help from any willing Goverment to Stop The British
    As we have noticed Dear Goverments of all European Nations The British have Declared war on our Nation and sunk our fleet. They no have Reason to enter this war. As they only have Defensive pacts with Belgium and we are defending against the Belgians as they declared war on us. We have no Allies as you may have noticed Although we defend our Nation and as result of Belgian agression and also Danish Agression And now the British Declare war without proper reasons. We call this madness Please help our Peacefull nation against the Agressors called: Belgium,Denmark,United kingdom and Ireland. Not to mention they declared Neutrality unless Belgium is attacked, The United Kingdom will stay neutral in the conflict. We have not attacked them They have attacked us. This is what you call A Agression of their goverment.
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    "Dieu Et Mon Droit"

    The United Kingdom would like to congratulate the combined navies of The UK and France on the very important victory in the Northern waters, and on the victory against the Dutch navy. As promised, the wrecking of HMS Drake and Goldfinch was answered tenfold. The might of the British navy shall sound through the waves! Huzzah!

    The UK celebrate our numerous naval victories.

    On a different note, The United Kingdom would like to clear that whatever actions caused against The Netherlands are in defense of The Kingdom of Belgium. We as an Empire had guaranteed Belgium long ago. Whether it is a defensive war or an offensive war, any damage done to the respected Kingdom of Belgium is under the responsibility of The Empire. If his Excellency, the Dutch head of state, would like to perform peace talk, the offer is there, not without consequence. Though, who wants to fight wars anyways? The offer stands and always will.

    The UK gives an opening for peace to The Netherlands.


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    "Ik zal handhaven"

    The Dutch Goverment responds on the United Kingdom's response
    We Were always open for Peace talks. We even wanted to attend the Conferance about the war while Belgians refused to come. We see no Reason to Reason with Tirants. We Clearly mentioned We would not move into Belgian lands with our armies and our Forces would only engage in deffensive actions to Protect our Glorious neutral country. We now Will decline Negotiations because we see no reasoning with The Belgians.

    Not to say We haven't attacked belgian ground nor Destroyed any property except Property of war. They demanded Outragous things to Our country for something we didn't do. An guarantee that We the Dutch have signed as well. This Treaty was only valid when the Belgian kingdom Was neutral This means The United Kingdom declared war without Reason. They broke the Treaty of London Signed on 11 May 1867 We believe this madness should stop But we only accept White Peace. We will not Demand any land from Them Nor will we enter their country Like we said in our Early war messages.

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    The Sultan Issues Extended Mobilization
    Seeing the War in Europe rage onwards, and the tolls it has taken upon the great powers, The Sultan now fears his neighbor to the NorthEast or possibly a combined Coalition of Russo-Balkan Forces will take this time to settle old scores, As the Entente cannot promise such protection, this has been the only logical conclusion.

    3rd and Fourth Army of the Empire Established!
    Designated as the Home Guard, another army has been formed. These two forces will be made up of the most experienced men from the waiting pool of soldiers, who will be equipped with any left over German and American Weapons that we have from years past. The Armies are too be commanded by the Sultans Cousin Salim Arkezo(3rd Army) and Baris Mezellah(4th Army).


    Istanbul Trade Ports Closed
    Due to the rise of Merchants coming under fire, the Ottoman Empire is closing down the Ports through Istanbul and stopping trade in an attempt to decrease Merchants from any country in the Area coming under fire, This is for the Merchants Protection, and any ship that attempts to come through will be searched, then sent back the way they came. All Guards at the Ports are under strict orders to not fire on any ships, and leave any cargo in the ships when they search them, we do not wish to cause international crisis and instead would like Sailors/Merchants and other convoys to be safe. NOTE: Military Vessels that possess the Sultans Seal of Approval and Correct Documentation will be allowed to move through the port, but will not be able to dock. TO GET THE SEAL OF APPROVAL PLEASE SEND TELEGRAMS ASKING FOR SUCH.

    Call to Russia and Bulgaria For Non-Aggression
    The Sultan Calls to Russia once more for Non-Aggression, as well as Bulgaria to uphold the agreement they set, and sign a non-aggression pact. As stated if the Sultan, had called off the troops, demobilized and broke the Alliance with Austria-Hungary, they promised a Non-Aggression Pact and never delivered, The Sultan would like to see some effort in pushing for peace.

    Armenian To be allowed citizenship if serving for two years
    In an astonishing turn of events, the Sultan has agreed to solve the Armenian problem within the country,
    he will let an citizen fight for the Sultan, for at least TWO YEARS. upon hitting the second year mark Armenians who served will be granted citizenship



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    Border Movement

    In light of recent events, Romanian troops have abandoned the Bulgarian Border and, instead, relocated to that of Austro-Hungary in force.

    Occupation of Berlin

    Those occupying Berlin have hunkered down in the Reichstag and the local area -- residents are in the process of being evicted. Their houses are to shelter Romanian soldiers, and to act as defensive positions. All prisoners, both military and political, are to be executed by firing squad, including the Crown Prince.


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    The Scandinavian Pact is dismantled

    The Kingdom of Sweden announces that due to various trust related issues with Norway, which cannot be specified further, it sees itself forced to dismantle the Scandinavian Pact. Furthermore, all joint military exercises by the Kingdom of Sweden and the Kingdom of Norway will come to an immediate halt.

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