the Austrian capital
the Serbian minister had expressed doubt as to the wisdom of the
visit, telling the court that the Serbian population in Bosnia might
make unfavorable demonstrations. The fears of the Serbian minister
proved to be well founded; Sarajevo displayed many Serbian flags on
the day of his arrival. The archduke's party, in automobiles,
proceeded to the Town Hall after leaving the railway station,
passing through crowded streets. The city officials were gathered at
the Town Hall to give him an official welcome. A bomb, hurled from a
roof, fell into the archduke's car; he caught it and threw it to the
pavement, where it exploded, doing no damage to either him or his
wife, but injuring two adjutants in the car following. One
Gabrinovics, a Serbian from Trebinje, was arrested as the assailant.

The archduke proceeded to the Town Hall, and after berating the city
officials listened to the speeches of welcome. As he and his wife
were departing a Serbian student, named Prinzip, who was later
arrested, rushed out from the crowd and fired point-blank at the
couple with a revolver. Both were hit a number of times and died
some hours later from their wounds.

Great excitement immediately prevailed in Sofia and Vienna, and in
Berlin and St. Petersburg to a lesser degree. What retribution would
Austria demand? The Austrian press openly avowed that the plot on
the archduke's life had been hatched in official circles in Serbia,
and the Austrian Government made no attempt to suppress these
statements. One hour after the tragedy had taken place it had
assumed an official and international complexion.

A punitive war against Serbia was immediately urged in Vienna. On
June 29, 1914, anti-Serbian riots broke out in Bosnia, Sarajevo was
put under martial law, and the bodies of the assassinated couple
began the mournful journey to Vienna. On July 2, 1914, Prinzip
confessed that he had apprised the Pan-Serbian Union of his attempt
to kill the archduke, and on the same day the first intimation came
that the matter was considered a serious one in Germany--the kaiser
became "diplomatically ill." Then, for twenty days there was an
outward calm in the capitals of Europe, but behind the scenes the
diplomats were at work; the great question was how far Russia would
go in defending her Slavic sister state against the impending
demands of Austria.

These demands were made public in a note which Austria sent to
Serbia on July 23, 19