dom of Serbia are said to have taken part in the preparation of
the outrage committed at Sarajevo. It expected that it would be
invited to collaborate in the investigation of everything bearing on
this crime, and it was ready to prove by its actions its entire
correctness to take steps against all persons with regard to whom
communications had been made to it, thus acquiescing in the desire
of the Imperial and Royal Government.

"The Royal Government is disposed to hand over to the courts any
Serbian subject, without regard to his situation and rank, for whose
complicity in the crime of Sarajevo it shall have been furnished
with proofs, and especially it engages itself to have published on
the front page of the official journal of July 13-26 the following
announcement:

"'The Royal Serbian Government condemns all propaganda directed
against Austria-Hungary, that is to say, all tendencies as a whole
of which the ultimate object is to detach from the Austro-Hungarian
monarchy territories which form part of it, and it sincerely
deplores the fatal consequences of these criminal actions. The Royal
Government regrets that Serbian officers and officials should,
according to the communication of the Imperial and Royal Government,
have participated in the above-mentioned propaganda, thereby
compromising the good neighborly relations to which the Royal
Government solemnly pledged itself by its declaration of March 31,
1909. The Government, which disapproves and repudiates any idea or
attempt to interfere in the destinies of the inhabitants of any part
of Austria-Hungary whatsoever, considers it its duty to utter a
formal warning to the officers, the officials, and the whole
population of the kingdom that henceforth it will proceed with the
utmost rigor against persons who render themselves guilty of such
actions, which it will use all its force to prevent and repress.'

"This announcement shall be brought to the cognizance of the Royal
army by an order of the day issued in the name of his Majesty the
King by H. R. H. the Crown Prince Alexander, and shall be published
in the next official bulletin of the army.

"1. The Royal Government engages itself, furthermore, to lay before
the next meeting of the Skupshtina an amendment to the press law,
punishing in the severest manner incitements to hate and contempt of
the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, and also all publications of which
the general tendency is directed against the territ