orial integrity
of the monarchy. It undertakes at the forthcoming revision of the
constitution to introduce an amendment whereby the above
publications may be confiscated, which is at present forbidden by
the terms of Article XXII of the constitution.
"2. The Government does not possess any proof, nor does the note of
the Imperial and Royal Government furnish such, that the Society
Narodna Obrana and other similar societies have up to the present
committed any criminal acts of this kind through the instrumentality
of one of their members. Nevertheless, the Royal Government will
accept the demand of the Imperial and Royal Government and will
dissolve the Narodna Obrana Society and any other society which
shall agitate against Austria-Hungary.
"3. The Royal Serbian Government engages itself to eliminate without
delay for public instruction in Serbia everything which aids or
might aid in fomenting the propaganda against Austria-Hungary when
the Imperial and Royal Government furnishes facts and proofs of this
propaganda.
"4. The Royal Government also agrees to remove from the military
service (all persons) whom the judicial inquiry proves to have been
guilty of acts directed against the integrity of the territory of
the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, and it expects the Imperial and Royal
Government to communicate at an ulterior date the names and the
deeds of these officers and officials for the purposes of the
proceedings which will have to be taken.
"5. The Royal Government must confess that it is not quite clear as
to the sense and object of the demands of the Imperial and Royal
Government that Serbia should undertake to accept on her territory
the collaboration of delegates of the Imperial and Royal Government,
but it declares that it will admit whatever collaboration which may
be in accord with the principles of international law and criminal
procedure, as well as with good neighborly relations.
"6. The Royal Government, as goes without saying, considers it to be
its duty to open an inquiry against all those who are, or shall
eventually prove to have been, involved in the plot of June 28, and
who are in Serbian territory. As to the participation at this
investigation of agents of the Austro-Hungarian authorities
delegated for this purpose by the Imperial and Royal Government, the
Royal Government cannot accept this demand, for it would be a
violation of the constitution and of the law of criminal procedure.
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