A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great WarRowe, R. P. P.
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A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great War
Rowe, R. P. P.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Chronology
'"The Royal Government of Serbia condemn the propaganda directed
against Austria-Hungary, _i.e._ the general tendency of which
the final aim is to detach from the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
territories belonging to it, and they sincerely deplore the fatal
consequences of these criminal proceedings.
'"The Royal Government regret that Serbian officers and
functionaries participated in the above-mentioned propaganda and
thus compromised the good neighbourly relations to which the Royal
Government were solemnly pledged by their declaration of the 31st
March 1909.
'"The Royal Government, who disapprove and repudiate all idea of
interfering or attempting to interfere with the destinies of the
inhabitants of any part whatsoever of Austria-Hungary, consider it
their duty formally to warn officers and functionaries, and the
whole population of the kingdom, that henceforward they will proceed
with the utmost rigour against persons who may be guilty of such
machinations, which they will use all their efforts to anticipate
and suppress."
'This declaration shall simultaneously be communicated to the Royal
Army as an order of the day by His Majesty the King and shall be
published in the "Official Bulletin" of the Army.
'The Royal Serbian Government further undertake:
'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 styled 'Narodna Odbrana,'
to confiscate all its means of propaganda, and to proceed in the
same manner against 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 also as regards 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 Austro-Hungarian Monarchy whose names and deeds the
Austro-Hungarian Government reserve to themselves the right of
communicating to the Royal Government;
'5. To accept the collaboration in Serbia of representatives of the
Austro-Hungarian Government for 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;
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