The Story of the Great War, Volume 1: Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers
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The Story of the Great War, Volume 1: Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers
World War, 1914-1918
"'The Royal Government regrets that Serbian officers and
functionaries participated in the above-mentioned propaganda and
thus compromised the good, neighborly relations to which the Royal
Government was solemnly pledged by its declaration of March 31,
1909. The Royal Government, which disapproves and repudiates all
idea of interfering or attempt to interfere with the destinies of
the inhabitants of any part whatsoever of Austria-Hungary, considers
it its duty formally to warn officers and functionaries, and the
whole population of the kingdom, that henceforward it will proceed
with the utmost rigor against persons who may be guilty of such
machinations, which it will use all its efforts to anticipate and
suppress.'
"The Royal Serbian Government further undertakes:
"1. To suppress any publications which incite 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 Obrava, to
confiscate all its means of propaganda, and to proceed in the same
manner against other societies and their branches which are addicted
to 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,
not only as regards the teaching body, but 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 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 June 28 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 cooperation of the Serbian
authorities in the illicit traffic in arms and explosives across the
frontier, and to dismiss and punish severely officials of the
frontier service at Schabatz and Loznica guilty of having assisted
the perpetrators of the Sarajevo crime by facilitating the passage
of the frontier for them.
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