airs, with Baron
Macchia, Under-Secretary of the Foreign Department. In this the
Serbian Minister adopted the following line of argument:

"The Royal Serbian Government condemn most energetically the
Sarajevo outrage and on their part will certainly most loyally do
everything to prove that they will not tolerate within their
territory the fostering of any agitation or illegal proceedings
calculated to disturb our already delicate relations with
Austria-Hungary. I am of opinion that the Government are prepared
also to submit to trial any persons implicated in the plot in the
event of its being proved that there are any in Serbia. The Royal
Serbian Government, notwithstanding all the obstacles hitherto
placed in their way by Austro-Hungarian diplomacy (creation of an
independent Albania, opposition to Serbian access to the
Adriatic, demand for revision of the Treaty of Bucharest, the
September ultimatum, etc.) remained loyal in their desire to
establish a sound basis for our good neighborly relations. You
know that in this direction something has been done and achieved.
Serbia intends to continue to work for this object, convinced
that it is practicable and ought to be continued. The Sarajevo
outrage ought not to and cannot stultify this work."

M. Yovanovitch said that he had communicated the substance of this
conversation to the French and Russian Ambassadors.

On the same day (June 30, 1914), the Serbian Prime Minister received
from M. Georgevitch, Serbian Charge d'Affaires at Constantinople,
the information that the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador there had told
him that, in recent conversations, Count Berchtold, the
Austro-Hungarian Prime Minister and Secretary for Foreign Affairs,
had expressed himself as satisfied with the attitude of the Serbian
Government, and desired friendly relations with it.

On the same day (June 30, 1914), Herr von Storck, Secretary of the
German Legation at Belgrade, telegraphed to Count Berchtold that he
had asked Herr Gruic, General Secretary of the Serbian Foreign
Office, what measures the Royal Serbian police had taken, or
proposed to take, to follow up clues to the crime which notoriously
were partly to be found in Serbia, and that the reply was that the
matter had not yet engaged the attention of the police.

On July 1, 1914, M. Pashitch, Serbian Prime Minister was informed by
telegraph from t