nnouncement which the Hungarian
_Korrespondenzbureau_ made to the newspapers stated:

"'The inquiries made up to the present prove conclusively that
this outrage is the work of a conspiracy. Besides the two
perpetrators, a large number of persons have been arrested,
mostly young men, who are also, like the perpetrators, proved to
have been employed by the Belgrade Narodna Odbrana in order to
commit the outrage, and who were supplied in Belgrade with bombs
and revolvers.' [This item was later recalled.]

"At the same time the Vienna _Korrespondenzbureau_ published the
following official statement:

"'We learn from authoritative quarters that the inquiries
relating to the outrage are being kept absolutely secret. All the
details, therefore, which have appeared in the public press
should be accepted with reserve.'

"Nevertheless the Budapest newspapers continued to publish
alleged reports on the inquiry. In the last 'report' of the
Budapest newspaper 'A Nap,' which was reprinted in yesterday's
Vienna papers, the tendency to lay the responsibility for the
outrage on the Narodna Odbrana is still further emphasized.
According to this report the accused Gabrinovitch had stated that
General Yankovitch is the chief instigator of the outrage."

On the same day Herr Hoflehner, Austro-Hungarian Consular Agent at
Nish, Serbia, wrote to Count Berchtold, Minister of Foreign Affairs
at Vienna, of the satisfaction and even joy expressed, especially in
the leading circles, over the crime at Sarajevo.

On the next day (July 7, 1914), M. Yov. M. Yovanovitch, Serbian
Minister at Vienna, wrote to M. Pashitch, Prime Minister at
Belgrade, that, though Emperor Francis Joseph had appealed to the
Prime Ministers of Austria (Count Berchtold) and of Hungary (Count
Tisza), and to the Minister of Finance (Herr Bilinski) for calmness,
it was impossible to tell what attitude toward Serbia the Government
would take.

"For them one thing is obvious; whether it is proved or not that
the outrage has been inspired and prepared at Belgrade, they must
sooner or later solve the question of the so-called Great Serbian
agitation within the Hapsburg Monarchy. In what manner they will
do this and what means they will employ to that end has not as
yet been decided; this is being discussed especially in high
Catholic an