hat according to a communication
of the Imperial and Royal Government certain Serbian officers and
functionaries have participated in the propaganda.

"The formula as demanded by Austria reads: The Royal Government
regrets that Serbian officers and functionaries ... have
participated.... Also with this formula and the further addition
'according to the declaration of the Imperial and Royal
Government,' the Serbian Government pursues the object, already
indicated above, to preserve a free hand for the future.

"Austria had demanded:

"1. To suppress every publication which incites to hatred and
contempt for the [Dual] Monarchy, and whose tendency is directed
against the territorial integrity of the monarchy.

"We wanted to bring about the obligation for Serbia to take care
that such attacks of the press would cease in the future.

"Instead Serbia offers to pass certain laws which are meant as
means toward this end, viz:

"(_a_) A law according to which the expressions of the press
hostile to the [Dual] Monarchy can be individually punished, a
matter which is immaterial to us, all the more so, as the
individual prosecution of press intrigues is very rarely possible
and as, with a lax enforcement of such laws, the few cases of
this nature would not be punished. The proposition, therefore,
does not meet our demand in any way, and it offers not the least
guaranty for the desired success.

"(_b_) An amendment to article 22 of the constitution, which
would permit confiscation, a proposal which does not satisfy us,
as the existence of such a law in Serbia is of no use to us. For
we want the _obligation_ of the Government to _enforce_ it and
that has not been promised us.

"These proposals are therefore entirely unsatisfactory and
evasive as we are not told within what time these laws will be
passed, and as in the event of the not passing of these laws by
the Skupshtina everything would remain as it is, except in the
event of a possible resignation of the Government.

"2. The propaganda of the Narodna Odbrana and affiliated
societies hostile to the [Dual] Monarchy fills the entire public
life of Serbia; it is therefore an entirely inacceptable reserve
if the Serbian Government asserts that it knows nothing about it.
Aside from