Page - 155 - in THE FIRST WORLD WAR - and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914 – 1918

An Empire Mobilises 155 ative attached to the Army High Command, Baron Giesl, comprehensive instructions. His task should be to report to the Foreign Ministry on the general military situation and the significant military events as well as significant political occurrences. He should be consulted by the Army High Command in all matters of international law and above all then, when the application of violence extended to the occupied territory.367 Giesl, however, made himself very quickly and very lastingly unpopular by reporting both earlier as well as more thoroughly on military events than the Army High Com- mand did in its reports to Vienna and the Emperor. And what caused even more prob- lems : Giesl reported more accurately. Accurate information on what happened during the first weeks of the war was anything but easy to come by, and even less so in Vienna.