nternational
Tribunal of The Hague, or to the Great Powers which took part in
the drawing up of the declaration made by the Serbian Government
on March 31, 1909."

The Austro-Hungarian Minister to Belgrade, Baron Giesl von
Gieslingen, to whom the reply was delivered, on comparing it with
his instructions, declared it unsatisfactory, and informed M.
Pashitch, the Serbian Prime Minister that he and his legation would
leave Belgrade that evening, turning over his Government's interests
in Serbia to the German Legation. Rupture in diplomatic relations
between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, he said, was a _fait accompli_.
These events M. Pashitch reported on the same day to all the Serbian
Legations abroad, and further announced:

"The Royal Serbian Government have summoned the Skupshtina to
meet on July 27 at Nish, whither all the ministries with their
staffs are proceeding this evening. The crown prince has issued,
in the name of the king, an order for the mobilization of the
army, while to-morrow or the day after a proclamation will be
made in which it will be announced that civilians who are not
liable to military service should remain peaceably at home, while
soldiers should proceed to their appointed posts and defend the
country to the best of their ability, in the event of Serbia
being attacked."

The Austrian Minister left Belgrade at 6.30 p. m. for Vienna. On the
same day the Serbian Minister at Vienna, M. Yov. Yovanovitch,
received his passports. On the same day the Serbian reply was
presented at Vienna, where it received the following commentaries by
the Foreign Office:

"The Royal Serbian Government limits itself to establishing that
since the declaration of March 31, 1909, there has been no
attempt on the part of the Serbian Government to alter the
position of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

"With this she deliberately shifts the foundation of our note, as
we have not insisted that she and her officials have undertaken
anything official in this direction. Our gravamen is that in
spite of the obligation assumed in the cited note, she has
omitted to suppress the movement directed against the territorial
integrity of the monarchy.

"Her obligation consisted in changing her attitude and the entire
direction of her policies, and in entering into friendly and
neighborly relations with the Au