ng the Balkan wars fell on deaf
ears; and the censorship to a great extent prevented the man
in the street from realizing during the late War that an
Allied Monarch was suspected of 'not playing the game.'" Mr.
Ronald M'Neill, M.P., who loved to dance in front of
Nicholas, informs us (in the _Nineteenth Century and After_,
for January 1921) that "so far as the present writer has been
able, after diligent endeavour, to discover, there never was
any evidence whatever for the Serbian legend that King
Nicholas was at any time during the War untrue to the Allied
cause."]

[Footnote 78: Cf. _Macedonia_, by H. N. Brailsford. London,
1906.]

[Footnote 79: London, 1920.]

V

THE EUROPEAN WAR

HOW THE AUSTRIANS WAGED WAR--THE SERBIAN PRINCES--THE TACTICS OF THE
MONTENEGRIN KING--THE MAGYARS AND THEIR PRISONERS--THE SOUTHERN SLAVS
IN AUSTRIA-HUNGARY--HOW THE WAR RAGED IN THE WINTER OF 1914-1915--THE
TREATY OF LONDON, APRIL 1915--HOW BULGARIA CAME INTO THE WAR--ATTEMPT
TO BUY OFF THE SERBS--GREEK TRANSACTIONS--FLIGHT OF THE SERBS--THE
FAITHFUL CROATS--HOW THE SERBS CAME TO THEIR PATRIARCH'S TOWN--THE
SHADOW OVER MONTENEGRO--THE BROKEN SERBS AT CORFU--THE SOUTHERN SLAVS
IN THE UNITED STATES--CASH AND THE MONTENEGRIN ROYAL FAMILY---THE
BURDEN OF AUSTRIA'S SOUTHERN SLAV TROOPS--THE FAITHFUL ITALIANS--SOUTHERN
SLAVS IN THE AUSTRIAN NAVY--ADVANCE OF THE ALLIES IN MACEDONIA--HOW
THE MAGYARS TREATED THEIR SERBIAN SUBJECTS--THE SOUTHERN SLAVS PAY
PART OF THEIR DEBT TO THE HABSBURG MONARCHY: (_a_) IN SYRMIA;
(_b_) IN SLOVENIA.

HOW THE AUSTRIANS WAGED WAR

"Machen Sie Ordnung!" ["Put matters in order"] was the phrase used by
Austrian officers in Serbia when they wished a non-commissioned
officer to see that such and such Serbian civilians should be hanged
or shot. Occasionally an accident occurred, as when a priest near
Vi[vs]egrad came to an officer with the request that his plum trees
should be spared, since he had nothing else. This officer intended to
be kind and, not knowing or forgetting the sense in which those three
words were being used, he said to a sergeant, "Machen Sie Ordnung!"
and the next morning a prominent citizen of Split, Count Pavlovi['c],
whose post in the Austro-Hungarian army was that of a provost-marshal,
saw the priest, his wife and his three little boys hanging from the
plum trees. It was and is the fashion to assert that the Austrian army
was