so many people
were killed. But you see the plan quite succeeded, and Great Serbia
has been made." He seemed to think it the object of the war. Another
told a friend of mine that bombthrowing had been taught at Shabatz,
and a Serbian officer boasted to Lady Boyle, when she was doing
Serbian relief work, that he was one of the men who taught the
murderers to shoot. He took their photographs from his pocket, and
called on her to admire how well he had taught them.

The bombs used, like those prepared for King Nikola, came from
Kraguyevatz. The assassins told in great detail at their trial that
they had been supplied with weapons, and taught to use them, by a
Serbian railway employe, Ciganovitch, and by Major Tankositch the
komitadji trainer He was a well-known komitadji himself, and a
member of the Narodna Odbrana and of the Black Hand. And he was in
constant touch with the Belgrade students at the Zelenom Vjencu
eating-house. A Serb student, who himself had frequented this place,
told me that Princip was chosen because he was so far advanced in
tuberculosis he could not live long in any case. He saw him just
before he left for Serajevo, looking very ill indeed. He described
that when the news of the murders arrived three hundred Bosnian
students rushed through Belgrade shouting and singing, and led by a
Montenegrin playing the gusle.

"But did not the police stop them?" I asked.

"No, why should they?"

"And were no arrests then made?"

"Oh, no." This corroborates the official letter of Chevalier von
Storck of the Austrian Legation in Belgrade, who wrote (see the
Austrian Red Book) on June 30th to Vienna:

"I have addressed to M. Gruitch, secretary to the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, the question appropriate to the moment, to enquire
what measures the police have already taken, or intend to take, to
follow up the traces of the crime which are notoriously spread
through Serbia. He replies that up till now the police have not
occupied themselves with the affair."

The consummate impudence of which remark needs no comment. The
planners of the crime had indeed Intended to bury their traces, as
they supplied the wretched boys each with a tube of cyanide of
potassium, which he was to take immediately after doing the deed. An
Instruction they did not follow.

The attitude of the Serb Government was precisely the same as that
it adopted in 1907 with regard to the Cetinje affair. It "knew
nothing," and made no inquiry