ort
to military measures.

On the same day (July 2, 1914), Dr. M. R. Vesnitch, Serbian Minister
at Paris, telegraphed to M. Pashitch, Prime Minister at Belgrade,
that the French Government advised Serbia to remain calm, in
official circles as well as in public opinion.

On July 3, 1914, M. Yovanovitch, Serbian Minister at Vienna, sent
two reports to M. Pashitch, Prime Minister at Belgrade, the first
containing an account of a mob which gathered before the Serbian
Legation on July 2, on account of his having hoisted the national
flag at half-mast as a sign of mourning; the bodies of the victims
of the Sarajevo tragedy having been brought that day to the Austrian
capital. The police dispersed the mob. The papers of July 3, under
the heading of "Provocation by the Serbian Minister," falsely
described the incident. The minister mentioned by name leading
instigators of attacks in the Austrian and German press on Serbia as
haranguing the crowd. In the second letter he reported a
conversation he had had with Baron Macchio, Austro-Hungarian
Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in which the Baron severely
censured the Belgrade press for its antimonarchical propaganda, and,
implicitly, the Serbian Government for not controlling the press.
The Serbian Minister had replied that the press was free, and that
there was no means of curbing it except by going to law; and, in
rejoinder, he censured the Austro-Hungarian Government, which could
control the press of its empire, for permitting it shamefully to
attack Serbia by accusing the whole nation of being an accomplice in
the Sarajevo crime. Baron Macchio had replied: "We accuse only those
who encourage the Great Serbian scheme, and work for the realization
of its object." Yovanovitch had rejoined that, till the
assassination, Bosnia Serbs had been uniformly called "Bosniaks,"
yet the assassin was now described as "a Serb," and no mention was
made that he was a Bosnian and an Austrian subject. This was
evidently to cast odium upon Serbia.

On July 4, 1914, Dr. M. R. Vesnitch, Serbian Minister at Paris,
reported to M. Pashitch, Prime Minister at Belgrade, a recent
conversation with M. Viviani, the new French Minister for Foreign
Affairs, on the Sarajevo incident.

"I described to him briefly the causes which had led to the
outrage and which were to be found, in the first place, in the
irksome system of Government in force in the annexed provinces,
and especial