ting that Belgrade should be purged of a nest of
conspirators. Pashitch, Spalaikovitch, and the Slovenski Jug
(founded in 1904), and others were accused. There was no question of
Friedjung's bona fides. He founded his article upon what he believed
to be genuine documents, and on the evidence of Nastitch, the
Bosnian, who had given sensational evidence at the Cetinje bomb
trial. Nastitch proved to be a professional spy, and the evidence
forged. Friedjung lost his case, and the sentences of the condemned
men were annulled. But his contention that plots against Austria
were being made in Belgrade has been proved undoubtedly true by
later events. The accused denied everything at the trial, but so
soon as war broke out in 1914 the Serbo-Croat party appeared with
ready-made plans, and Supilo, who had most vehemently protested his
innocence, appeared as a recognized leader. The trial, in truth,
resembles the case of The Times v. Parnell. The Times, like
Friedjung, lost its case not because the charge was false, but
because all the evidence produced was forged. That Parnell was
intimately acquainted with and connected with all the anti-English
work going on in Ireland is now well known. Friedjung was correct.
Belgrade winked at the anti-Austrian work that was going on. The
komitadji school was taught by Serb officers. Evidence was not easy
to get, for, as it was explained to me by the pro-Serb party in
Bosnia, in 1906, nothing of importance was written down, and the
Austrians searched the post vainly. And the fact that they told me
the Slovenski Jug was directed against Austria prevented me from
joining it. Friedjung's failure proves only the folly of employing a
stupid spy, not the innocence of the accused. Pashitch, after war
began, never ceased trumpeting his schemes for Great Serbia. He
grudges even now a few snippets to Italy, without whose aid it might
not have been made. To assert that Pashitch, who, with his set, had
worked to make Great Serbia ever since they had removed the
Obrenovitch from its path in 1903, was innocent of plotting against
Austria in 1909-10, is to ask for too much credulity. Had not Russia
already said the road to Constantinople lay through Vienna?

England had previously been uneasy about the regicides, and had
demanded their dismissal from the Serb army, but now ceased to
trouble about them. They were probably needed to teach in the bandit
school of the Narodna Odbrana. And henceforth they held i