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
4. The Royal Government also agree to remove from military service
all such persons as the judicial inquiry may have proved to be
guilty of acts directed against the integrity of the territory of
the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, and they expect the Imperial and
Royal Government to communicate to them at a later date the names
and the acts of these officers and officials for the purpose of the
proceedings which are to be taken against them.
5. The Royal Government must confess that they do not clearly
grasp the meaning or the scope of the demand made by the Imperial
and Royal Government that Serbia shall undertake to accept the
collaboration of the organs of the Imperial and Royal Government
upon their territory, but they declare that they will admit such
collaboration as agrees with the principle of international law,
with criminal procedure, and with good neighbourly relations.
6. It goes without saying that the Royal Government consider it
their duty to open an inquiry against all such persons as are, or
eventually may be, implicated in the plot of the 15th June, and
who happen to be within the territory of the Kingdom. As regards
the participation in this inquiry of Austro-Hungarian agents or
authorities appointed for this purpose by the Imperial and Royal
Government, the Royal Government cannot accept such an arrangement,
as it would be a violation of the Constitution and of the law of
criminal procedure; nevertheless, in concrete cases communications
as to the results of the investigation in question might be given
to the Austro-Hungarian agents.
7. The Royal Government proceeded, on the very evening of the
delivery of the note, to arrest Commandant Voislav Tankossitch. As
regards Milan Ziganovitch, who is a subject of the Austro-Hungarian
Monarchy and who up to the 15th[10] June was employed (on probation)
by the directorate of railways, it has not yet been possible to
arrest him.
[10] Old style.
The Austro-Hungarian Government are requested to be so good as to
supply as soon as possible, in the customary form, the presumptive
evidence of guilt, as well as the eventual proofs of guilt which
have been collected up to the present, at the inquiry at Serajevo
for the purposes of the later inquiry.
8. The Serbian Government will reinforce and extend the measures
which have been taken for preventing the illicit traffic of arms
and explosives across the frontier. It goes without saying that
they will immediately order an inquiry and will severely punish the
frontier officials on the Schabatz-Loznitza line who have failed in
their duty and allowed the authors of the crime of Serajevo to pass.
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