ly in the attitude of the officials, as well as in
the whole policy of the monarchy toward anything orthodox. He
understood the situation, but at the same time expressed the hope
that we should preserve an attitude of calm and dignity in order
to avoid giving cause for fresh accusations in Vienna.

"After the first moment of excitement public opinion here has
quieted down to such an extent that the minister-president
himself considered it advisable in the Palais de Bourbon to
soften the expressions used in the statement which he had made
earlier on the subject in the Senate."

On the same day (July 4, 1914), Dr. M. Spalaikovitch, Serbian
Minister at Petrograd,[1] telegraphed to M. Pashitch, Prime Minister
at Belgrade, that the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, M.
Sazonof, had expressed his opinion that the outrages upon the Serbs
in Bosnia would increase the sympathy of Europe for Serbia; that the
accusations made in Vienna would not obtain credence and that
therefore Serbia should remain calm.

[Footnote 1: Although the name St. Petersburg was not changed
officially to Petrograd until after the outbreak of the war, the
latter name is used uniformly in the Serbian Blue Book and
Russian Orange Book.]

On the same day (July 4, 1914), Count Szecsen, Austro-Hungarian
Ambassador at Paris, telegraphed to Count Berchtold, Minister for
Foreign Affairs at Vienna, that, in officially thanking M. Poincare
for his sympathy over the Sarajevo tragedy, the President had
excused the hostile demonstrations against Serbia by citing those
against all Italians in France after the assassination of President
Carnot.

"I drew his attention to the fact that that crime had no
connection with any anti-French agitation in Italy, while in the
present case it must be admitted that for years past there has
been an agitation in Serbia against the [Dual] Monarchy fomented
by every means, legitimate and illegitimate.

"In conclusion, M. Poincare expressed his conviction that the
Serbian Government would meet us with the greatest willingness in
the judicial investigation and the prosecution of the
accomplices. No state could divest itself of this duty."

On the same day (July 4, 1914), M. de Manneville, French Charge
d'Affaires at Berlin, reported to M. Viviani, President of the
Council in Paris, a conversation with Herr von Zimmermann,