Vienna Palace
Foreign Minister Weisenberg, weighed down with heavy feelings, said with deep concern, "Your Majesty, this is a diplomatic note from the Tsarist Government.
The outbreak that emerged in the Asia Minor Peninsula has been confirmed as a man-made plague crafted by the Ottoman Government, and the situation is now out of control."
After pointing the finger at the former Ottoman Government for the "plague," the Russians immediately interrogated the surrendered Ottoman officials.
Under severe torture, they confessed to everything they should and shouldn't have known.
An enraged Alexander III instantly issued an order to hunt down Abdul Hamid II, and this diplomatic note was to inform the allies of the same.
After carefully reading through the note, Franz spoke slowly, "Call upon the nation's citizens for rat extermination, and command the related businesses within the country to produce rodenticides at full capacity.