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In England , meantime , was nothing but dismay . The Government , whose defeat was accidental , on being hurriedly patched up , threw itself passionately into the work of defence , calling up every enrolled man , while at regimental centres the enlistment of volunteers went forward , Weedon alone turning out 7,000 rifles a day . But on the night of the Declaration the Under-secretary announced in the House that the Russians were moving down the Baltic , the French toward the Straits : and the next morning dawned with the dreariness of last mornings and days . However , soon after 1 P.M. , the Lord of the Sea landed at Bristol , his yacht being one of the swiftest things afloat ; there heard the known facts ; and thence wired to Beech 's London house , to the London Foreign Office , to Cadiz and to Frederikshavn , where he had wireless for the _ Mahomet _ at the Straits , and for the _ Truth _ in the Cattegat . His wire to the Foreign Office was as follows : `` I have come to England hoping to avert European war by fiscal means , not knowing that the passage of ships into open water was of first importance . Since this is so , accept my assurance , there will be no war , except on the part of Britain , which I should much resent . British Government , I suggest , should forthwith allay national anxiety .