The letter ends as follows :—
" We are awaiting now two great events to decide our fate. If the battle in Poland should be a defeat and Count Tisza's mission a failure, that is, if the invasion of Hungary cannot be prevented, I would not like to say what will happen. For the people are desperate and are raging at the criminal negligence with which they have been treated. They might not march against Vienna, but the war loan would be affected, and a passive opposition to everything concerning the war would [finely be the attitude of the Hungarian population, and God only knows what effect it would have on the Serbian, Roumanian, and other nationalities, who will feel freed from the pressure of Austria and will openly begin hostilities, with the Russian Army behind them The Serbian massacre of 1878 will easily repeat itself in the South, and one cannot see how we could defend ourselves against our own nationalities, who are waiting anxiously for the opportunity to take a hand in the division of the Empire."
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