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down very much as an Engishman used TO look
dawn upon a colonial This loyal majority
while aqitatinc for urgent internal improve
r,onts of government and administration. Will
have nothing 10 do with the propaganda for
Seryian empire.
An entirely mistaken impression has been
cre1tcd in this country to the effect that the
Serbs Of the Dual Monarchy are unit OF
see,hing rebellion and ardent desire to become
Seryians The opposite, ! repeat IS true. The
proof? The rage Of the loyal Serbs, Croats
and, Mahometans in Sarajevo after the double
murder sufices. Before the sodiery succeeded
in depressing their outbreak they had burned
the Seryian flag wrecked the local Servian
club and the house Of the most prominent Pan
Seryian in the place and administered terrible
beatings 10 all Pan-Seryians upon whom they
could Law their hands But of these facts no
mention has been made by the Servisn sympa-
thizers in America II is, indeed, rather in
convenient for their that these Serbs,
Croats and Moslems on the spot seem to have
known al once where to look for the real Grim
inals.
have explained time and again that the Slavs
Of the Dual Monarchy cannot be Jumped together
q, A unit Their interests vary and clash as
often as they agree. The Ruthenians live with
the Poles in Gaicia, but are their bitterest enc
mics The Czechs use Pan-Slavistic assistance
from Russia only in so far as it suits their own
purpose. which is the re-establshment of their
ancient kingdom. They have not the slightest
intention of becoming Russians part of Pam
Slavistc power. The Croats, as ! have already
said live side by side with the Serbs but viii
have nothing to do with them; yet all these races
are counted together in a large, vaguely in
formed way as one solid element in the Dual
Monarchy bent upon separation from IT. what
they demand is autonomy within the state
The crop Of memorable sayings has been album
dat No writer on the Servian question during
= q las. few weeks has been without his story
OF somebody who said something TO him, o. 70
somebody else at the time of the Congress OF
Berlin or Of somebody else again who said some
thing even more impressive 10 still somebody
else at Vienna many years later. Most OF these
sayings have been apt as 20 be obvious from
the narrators point OF view, and IL will be moe
10 the point TO turn TO more important matters
Another American friend Of Servia has coined
the striking phrase "Serva Irredenta.' II sounds
well: but its historic sense is questionable. As ]
pointed out in these columns the other day, TIE
g.eat Seryian Empire of the Middle Ages lasted
lust ten years a rather brief period upon which
70 base historic claims to ancient nationality
may as well repeat here that II was not eVeH "
Seryian but a Seryian-Greek empire and that 1t
took les civilization from Byzantium. But the
Impression still remains that Austria Hungary, by
ruthless force Of arms, tore desperately resisting
parts from this empire, and has held them In
ignoble thrall since
The truth Of he matter is that the majority
Of the Serbs living in Austrian Hun
garan territory are the descendants Of anccs-
tors who went there volur tarily, exies who would
not submit 70 the eXtortons and expressions Of
the "unspeakable Turk" and who sought the pro-
lection " Assa&ls- 1sssAxE aSsiAS' Ne Islam ia