e ready, as heretofore, to observe all those
good neighborly obligations to which Serbia was bound by her
position as a European state.

"From the date of the perpetration of the outrage until to-day
not once did the Austro-Hungarian Government apply to the Serbian
Government for their assistance in the matter. They did not
demand that any of the accomplices should be subjected to an
inquiry, or that they should be handed over to trial. In one
instance only did the Austrian Government ask for information;
this was as to the whereabouts of certain students who had been
expelled from the Pakratz Teachers' Seminary and had crossed over
to Serbia to continue their studies. All available information on
this point was supplied."

The notice related the anti-Serbian propaganda conducted by the
Austro-Hungarian press, the interpellations in the Hungarian
Parliament, etc., and the probable intention of the Austro-Hungarian
Government to demand a categorical reply from Serbia, which, if not
satisfactory, would be followed by war.

That Austria-Hungary was picking a quarrel had been evidenced by her
use of an exploded rumor of a contemplated attack on the Austrian
Legation in Belgrade to prove how excited public opinion was in
Serbia, and to what lengths she was ready to go.

"There is reason for apprehension that some step is being
prepared against us [in the evident intention] that the inquiry
which is being made is not to be limited to the perpetrators and
their possible accomplices in the crime, but is most probably to
be extended to Serbia and the Great Serbian idea....

"On the other hand the Serbian Government have given their
particular attention to the improvement and strengthening of
their relations with the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, which had
lately become strained as a result of the Balkan wars and of the
questions which arose therefrom. With that object in view the
Serbian Government proceeded to settle the question of the
Oriental Railway, the new railway connections, and the transit
through Serbia of Austro-Hungarian goods for Constantinople,
Sofia, Saloniki, and Athens.

"The Serbian Government consider that their vital interests
require that peace and tranquillity in the Balkans should be
firmly and lastingly established. And for this very reason they
fear l