Not for the war itself, but for coming up with an actual newspaper clipping.
One of the first things to happen was the British government ordered all warships to assemble at their home ports. The Home Fleet moved to Scapa Flow and the Orkneys to prepare for a blockade of Germany if it came to that. This was done on the sole order of First Sea Lord Prince Louis Battenberg, as First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill was on vacation at the time.
"I wondered whether those stupid Kings and Emperors could not assemble together and revivify kinship by saving the nations from hell but we all drift on in a kind of dull cataleptic trance. As if it was somebody else's operation."
-Winston Churchill in a letter to his wife upon hearing of the Declaration of War
Marting Gilbert,
The First World War, Henry Holt, 1994
Richard Hough,
The Great War at Sea, Oxford University Press, 1983
Ian Westwell,
World War 1 Day by Day, The Brown Reference Group, 1999