ng used to an order of ideas which were
formerly repugnant to him, and that, to borrow from him a phrase
which he likes to use, 'we must keep our powder dry.'"

[See also letter of M. Allize, French Minister at Munich, of July
10, 1914, in pages following.]

The next evidence presented before the court of the world is that by
Serbia and her witnesses, the nations thus far, to all appearances,
interested solely in maintaining the peace of Europe, as to Serbia's
non-responsibility for the assassination of the hereditary Archduke
of Austria at Sarajevo, Bosnia, on June 28, 1914, and as to her
sincere desire to do all she could, short of impairing her
sovereignty and suffering national humiliation; and that by
Austria-Hungary and the same witnesses that were brought forward by
Serbia as to Serbia's complicity in the assassination, and to
Austria-Hungary's right to fix this, and to exact guaranties that
Serbia should not in the future prosecute her evil designs against
Austria-Hungary.

THE ASSASSINATION OF THE AUSTRIAN ARCHDUKE

On June 28, 1914, M. Dumaine, French Ambassador at Vienna, reported
to M. Rene Viviani, President of the Council and Minister for
Foreign Affairs at Paris, the assassination that day of the
hereditary Archduke of Austria and his wife at Sarajevo, Bosnia.

On June 29, 1914, Yov. M. Yovanovitch, Serbian Minister at Vienna,
telegraphed to M. N. Pashitch, Prime Minister and Minister for
Foreign Affairs at Belgrade, that the Vienna press asserted that
magisterial inquiry had already shown that the Sarajevo outrage was
prepared at Belgrade; that the whole conspiracy in its wider issues
was organized there among youths inspired with the great Serbian
idea; and that the Belgrade press was exciting public opinion by
articles about the intolerable conditions in Bosnia, papers
containing which were being smuggled in large quantities into
Bosnia.

On the same day, June 29, 1914, Ritter von Storck, Secretary of the
German Legation at Belgrade, the Austro-Hungarian Minister, Baron
Giesl von Gieslingen being absent from his post on leave, reported
to Count Berchtold, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in
Vienna, the following facts:

"Yesterday the anniversary of the battle of the Amselfeld was
celebrated with greater ceremony than usual, and there were
celebrations in honor of the Serbian patriot, Milos Obilic, who
in 1389 with two companions treacherously stabb