stro-Hungarian Monarchy, and not
to interfere with the possession of Bosnia.

"The assertion of the Royal Serbian Government that the
expressions of the press and the activity of Serbian associations
possess a private character and thus escape governmental control,
stands in full contrast with the institutions of modern states
and even the most liberal of press and society laws, which nearly
everywhere subject the press and the societies to a certain
control of the state. This is also provided for by the Serbian
institutions. The rebuke against the Serbian Government consists
in the fact that it has totally omitted to supervise its press
and its societies, in so far as it knew their direction to be
hostile to the [Dual] Monarchy.

"The assertion [that the Serbian Government was ready to proceed
against all persons in regard to whom it would receive
information] is incorrect. The Serbian Government was accurately
informed about the suspicion resting upon quite definite
personalities and not only in the position, but also obliged by
its own laws to institute investigations spontaneously. The
Serbian Government has done nothing in this direction."

The Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office objected to the alterations made
by Serbia in the declaration published in the official organ. This,
in the Serbian reply, began:

"The Royal Serbian Government condemns every propaganda which
should be directed against Austria-Hungary.

"The Austrian demand reads: 'The Royal Serbian Government
condemns the propaganda against Austria-Hungary....' The
alteration of the declaration as demanded by us, which has been
made by the Royal Serbian Government, is meant to imply that a
propaganda directed against Austria-Hungary does not exist, and
that it is not aware of such. This formula is insincere, and the
Serbian Government reserves itself the subterfuge for later
occasions that it had not disavowed by this declaration the
existing propaganda, nor recognized the same as hostile to the
[Dual] Monarchy, whence it could deduce further that it is not
obliged to suppress in the future a propaganda similar to the
present one."

Objection was similarly made to the alteration in the Serbian
apology for acts of Serbian officers. This apology began:

"The Royal Government regrets t