mally to warn officers and functionaries, and This declaration shall simultaneously be communicated to the royal army as an order of the day by His Majesty the King, and published in the Official Bulletin of the army. The Royal Serbian Government further undertakes: 1. To suppress any publication which incites to hatred and contempt of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the general tendency of which is directed against its territorial integrity; 2. To dissolve immediately the society called Narodna Odbrana, to confiscate all its means of propaganda, and to proceed in the same manner against all other societies and their branches in Serbia which engage in propaganda against the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. The Royal Government shall take the necessary measures to prevent the societies dissolved from continuing their activity under another name and form; 3. To eliminate without delay from public instruction in Serbia, both as regards the teaching body and the methods of instruction, everything that serves, or might serve, to foment the propaganda against Austria-Hungary; 4. To remove from the military service, and from the administration in general, all officers and functionaries guilty of propaganda against the AustroHungarian Monarchy whose names and deeds the Austro-Hungarian Government reserves to itself the right of communicating to the Royal Government; 5. To accept the collaboration in Serbia of representatives of the Austro-Hungarian Government in the suppression of the subversive movement directed against the territorial integrity of the monarchy; 6. To take judicial proceedings against accessories to the plot of the 28th June who are on Serbian territory. Delegates of the Austro-Hungarian Government will take part in the investigation relating thereto; 7. To proceed without delay to the arrest of Major Voija Tankositch and of the individual named Milan Ciganovitch, a Serbian State employee, who have been compromised by the results of the magisterial inquiry at Sarajevo ; 8. To prevent by effective measures the coöperation of the Serbian authorities in the illicit traffic in arms and explosives across the frontier, to dismiss and punish severely the officials of the frontier service at Schabatz and Loznica guilty of having assisted the perpetrators of the Sarajevo crime by facilitating their passage across the frontier; 9. To furnish the Imperial and Royal Government with explanations regarding the unjustifiable utterances of high Serbian officials, both in Serbia and abroad, who, notwithstanding their official position, did not hesitate after the crime of the 28th June to express themselves in interviews in terms of hostility to the Austro-Hungarian Government; and, finally, 10. To notify the Imperial and Royal Government without delay of the execution of the measures comprised under the preceding heads. The Austro-Hungarian Government expects the reply of the Royal Government at the latest by 6 o'clock on Saturday evening, the 25th July. A memorandum dealing with the results of the magisterial inquiry at Sarajevo with regard to the officials mentioned under heads (7) and (8) is attached to this note.* On the same day on which this note was sent to Serbia, the Austro-Hungarian minister for 4 A. R. B., 7. foreign affairs sent instructions to the Hungarian ambassadors at the variou pean capitals to bring the contents of to the Governments of the powers and same time present a statement, prepared foreign office, explaining why Austria-H had felt compelled to take such action Serbia. These ambassadors were also that the Austro-Hungarian Government the disposal of the powers a dossier " ing the Serbian machinations and show connection between these machinations murder on the 28th of June."5 This was sent to the powers on July 25.6 1 lowing is a summary of the document: There has been going on in Serbia for time a propaganda looking to the deta of the Southern Slav provinces of th Monarchy in order to unite them with This movement reached its climax at th (1908) of the annexation of Bosnia and govina by Austria-Hungary. The entir at that time clamored for war with Aust "associations were formed in preparati a struggle." The Narodna Odbrana w most important of these associations. formed as a private organization, but dominated by the Government because state functionaries on its roll of memb 5 A. R. B., 8. • Ibid., 19. The object of the society was to recruit and equip "bodies of volunteers for the coming war with the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy." The activities of the society were open and were supported by the Government. In this way the 'guerilla warfare against Austria-Hungary was organized." "This period of aggressiveness was terminated by the declaration" of March 31, 1909, when Serbia declared her willingness to acquiesce in the annexation. The movement against Austria now seemed to be at an end. But the "aspirations hostile to the Dual Monarchy remained in operation," and the propaganda against Austria-Hungary continued and grew more active. Secret intrigues were now carried on in the Southern Slav provinces of the Dual Monarchy and Austro-Hungarian subjects were "corrupted to betray their country." The newspapers were especially active in this work. "They habitually referred to the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina as an act of robbery committed against Serbia and requiring remedy." These These sheets "were smuggled into the [Dual] Monarchy through well organized secret channels." The Narodna Odbrana is the center of this agitation. It preaches to the people that Austria-Hungary is trying to crush Serbia, and is therefore Serbia's greatest enemy. It pledges its members to preach to the people untiringly and unceasingly "that the waging of a war of extermination against Austria-Hungary is an imperative necessity." There are other societies affiliated with the Narodna Odbrana. They too are dominated by "army officers, professors, and state officials." One of these is the Sokol Society. Its aims nominally are "athletic" as those of the Narodna Odbrana are "cultural," but one of the real aims is the "liberation of the brothers across the Drina." The Narodna Odbrana appeals not only to the subjects of Serbia but to all Southern Slavs. It tries to incite them to the work of destruction of the Dual Monarchy. It also keeps in touch with the "brothers outside of Serbia." "Princip and Grabez [assassins of the Grand Duke] are types of the youths whose minds had been poisoned in school by the teaching of the Narodna Odbrana." Milan Ciganovitch and Major Voija Tankositch [Serbians alleged to have aided the assassins] were leaders of the Narodna Odbrana. The Serbian Government is responsible because it has allowed the hostility of the press and this activity of the associations against another state to go on and has not suppressed the "activities of men holding high positions in the state administration," "who poisoned the national conscience." 7 7 A. R. B., 19, enclosure. |