d were now panic-stricken, and that
there had been a demonstration against the Austrian Minister at the
funeral of Dr. Hartwig, the Russian Minister. There was no
foundation whatever for these statements.

In the second letter he notified the Legations that the
Austro-Hungarian news bureaus, the channel of Serbian news to the
world, misrepresented, through garbling extracts, the tone of the
Belgrade press, and that all Serbian papers were forbidden entry
into Austria-Hungary.

"With us the press is absolutely free. Newspapers can be
confiscated only for _lese-majeste_ or for revolutionary
propaganda; in all other cases confiscation is illegal. There is
no censorship of newspapers."

Accordingly the Serbian foreign ministers were instructed to give
out information that the Serbian Government lacked the power to
control the newspapers, and further to spread knowledge of the fact
that it was Austro-Hungarian papers which originated all the
controversies, while the Serbian ones only replied. There was no
desire in Serbia to provoke Austria-Hungary.

On July 15, 1914, M. Yov. Yovanovitch, Serbian Minister at Vienna,
reported to M. Pashitch, Prime Minister at Belgrade, that the
Ministers of the Dual Monarchy had been consulting about the
Sarajevo incident, and that it appeared nothing was decided. Count
Berchtold, the Austro-Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs, had
gone to Ischl, where Emperor Francis Joseph was recovering from the
shock of the assassination, to report to him. Count Tisza, the
Hungarian Prime Minister, had replied evasively to interpellations
made in the Hungarian Parliament by the Opposition. Owing to the
absence on leave from his post of the War Minister and his chief of
staff, the Bourse had recovered.

"One thing is certain: Austria-Hungary will take diplomatic steps
at Belgrade as soon as the magisterial inquiry at Sarajevo is
completed and the matter submitted to the court."

In a second letter of the same date M. Yovanovitch reported to M.
Pashitch that it was thought that the inquiry had not produced
sufficient evidence to justify officially accusing Serbia more than
for tolerating in her borders certain revolutionary elements.
Austro-Hungarian methods were criticized in diplomatic circles and
the Serbian attitude was commended as in accord with the dignity of
a nation.

"In spite of the fact that it appears that the German Foreign
Office does