onsequences of these criminal machinations.'

"The Royal Government regrets that, in accordance with
advices from the Austro-Hungarian Government, certain
Servian officers and functionaries are taking an active part
in the present propaganda, and that they have thereby
jeopardized the pleasant neighborly relations to the
maintenance of which the Royal Government was formally
pledged by the declaration of March 31, 1909.

"The Government (what follows here is similar to the text
demanded).

"The Royal Government further pledges itself:

"1. To introduce a provision in the press law on the
occasion of the next regular session of the Skupshtina,
according to which instigations to hatred and contempt of
the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, as well as any publication
directed in general against the territorial integrity of
Austria-Hungary, shall be punished severely.

"The Government pledges itself, on the occasion of the
coming revision of the Constitution, to add to Article XXII.
a clause permitting the confiscation of publications, the
confiscation of which, under the present Article XXII. of
the Constitution, would be impossible.

"2. The Government possesses no proof--and the Note of the
Austro-Hungarian Government provides it with none--that the
'Narodna Odbrana' Society and other similar associations
have up to the present committed any criminal acts through
any of their members. Nevertheless, the Royal Government
will accept the demand of the Austro-Hungarian Government
and dissolve the Narodna Odbrana Society, as well as all
societies that may work against Austria-Hungary.

"3. The Royal Servian Government agrees to eliminate
forthwith from public education in Servia everything that
might help the propaganda against Austria-Hungary, provided
that the Austro-Hungarian Government gives it actual proof
of this propaganda.

"4. The Royal Government is also ready to discharge from
military and civil service such officers--provided it is
proved against them by legal investigation--who have
implicated themselves in acts directed against the
territorial integrity of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy; the
Government expects that, for the purpose of instituting
proceedings, the Austro-Hungarian Government will impart the