nia of the criminals
and their arms was organized and effected by the chiefs of the
Serbian Frontier Service.

"The above-mentioned results of the magisterial investigation do not
permit the Austro-Hungarian Government to pursue any longer the
attitude of expectant forbearance which it has maintained for years
in face of the machinations hatched in Belgrade and thence
propagated in the territories of the monarchy. These results, on the
contrary, impose on it the duty of putting an end to intrigues which
form a perpetual menace to the tranquility of the monarchy.

"To achieve this end the Imperial and Royal Government sees itself
compelled to demand from the Serbian Government a formal assurance
that it condemns this dangerous propaganda against the monarchy and
the territories belonging to it, and that the Royal Serbian
Government shall no longer permit these machinations and this
criminal and perverse propaganda.

"In order to give a formal character to this undertaking the Royal
Serbian Government shall publish on the front page of its official
journal for July 26 the following declaration:

"'The Royal Government of Serbia condemns the propaganda directed
against Austria-Hungary, i. e., the ensemble of tendencies of which
the final aim is to detach from Austro-Hungarian monarchy
territories belonging to it, and it sincerely deplores the fatal
consequences of these criminal proceedings.

"'The Royal Government regrets that Serbian 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 March 31,
1909. The Royal Government, which disapproves and repudiates all
idea of interfering or attempt 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 kingdom, that henceforward it will proceed
with the utmost rigor against persons who may be guilty of such
machinations, which it will use all its efforts to anticipate and
suppress.'

"The Royal Serbian Government further undertakes:

"1. To suppress any publications which incite to hatred and contempt
of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and the general tendency of which
is directed against its territorial integrity.

"2. To dissolve immediately the society styled Narodna Obrava, to
confiscate