ently
with its issuance, any such responsibility? The answer is obvious.
This was necessary to support its contention that the quarrel between
Austria and Servia was purely "local."

NOTE.--In Chapter VII it will appear from the French _Yellow Book_
that the Prime Minister of Bavaria had knowledge of the Austrian
ultimatum before its delivery in Belgrade.

CHAPTER V

THE ULTIMATUM TO SERVIA

To convince any reasonable man that this Austrian ultimatum to Servia
was brutal in its tone and unreasonable in its demands, and that the
reply of Servia was as complete an acquiescence as Servia could make
without a fatal compromise of its sovereignty and self-respect, it is
only necessary to print in parallel columns the demands of Austria and
the reply of Servia.

AUSTRIA'S ULTIMATUM TO SERVIA

"To achieve this end the Imperial and Royal Government sees
itself compelled to demand from the Royal Servian Government
a formal assurance that it condemns this dangerous
propaganda against the Monarchy; in other words, the whole
series of tendencies, the ultimate aim of which is to detach
from the Monarchy territories belonging to it, and that it
undertakes to suppress by every means this criminal and
terrorist propaganda.

"In order to give a formal character to this undertaking the
Royal Servian Government shall publish on the front page of
its '_Official Journal_' of the 26th July, the following
declaration:

"'The Royal Government of Servia condemns the propaganda
directed against Austria-Hungary--_i.e._, the general
tendency of which the final aim is to detach from the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy territories belonging to it, and
it sincerely deplores the fatal consequence of these
criminal proceedings.

"'The Royal Government regrets that Servian officers
and functionaries participated in the above-mentioned
propaganda, and thus compromised the good neighborly
relations to which the Royal Government was solemnly pledged
by its declaration of the 31st March, 1909.

"'The Royal Government, which disapproves and repudiates all
idea of interfering or attempting to interfere with the
destinies of the inhabitants of any part whatsoever of
Austria-Hungary, considers it its duty formally to warn
officers and functionaries, and the whole population of the