Evening star., 1914-08-02

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NJ. Paul Leroy-Beaulieu writing of the'
assassination Of the archduke says:
"The ideas and de-
Late Archduke's signs of the Arch
n..u duke Francis Ferdi
Disposition. nand were clothed IL.
certain mystery. They were interpret
ed In different ways. 1t was supposed
in general that the archduke would have
given to Austro- Hungarian policy
more energetic direction. even more au-
dacious."
Another Servian publicist writes his
view of things in Bosnia, and what he
says may be taken as interesting side
lights upon the Servian side of the
question. quite different from anything
one may read In the Austrian press. II
the government at Vienna wishes to gain
over the Bosnians 1t should lose no time
to change its methods. And the corre-
spondent proceeds to submit three rea-
sons Of discomfort which have brought
discord between Vienna and her subjects
in Bosnia, Croatia and Dalmatia-the
intellectual question. the peasant ques-
tion and the question of nationalities.
OF the intellectual he writes: June g.
1910. when the diet Of Bosnia was in
augurated, an attempt on the life of Ger
Varechanfne was committed by Bogdau
Iereaitch at serejeyo. Iereaitch was a
three. orthodox, student at law at
Agram.
"June 8. 1912. an attempt was commit
ted against the royal commissioner, Tsou-
val. in Croatia. by Louka Youkiteh. Bos-
nian. age twenty-three, Catholic, law
student at Agram.
September so, 1912, an attempt was
committed against Baron Skerlatz, ban
Of Croatia. by Plaminchtiak. born In
Croatia. age twenty, Catholic. law stue
August 49, 1913. an attempt was COM
mitted against the same Ban Skerlatz by
Stepan Doitchitch, born in Croatia, aged
twenty-one years. Cathoiic laborer re-
turning from the United States.
June %. 1914. the Archduke Crown
prince Francis Ferdinand and his wife.
the Duchess Of Hobenburg: were assassi-
mated at Serejevo by Prinzit, Bosnian.
aged nineteen. orthodox, and belonging
to the lyceum at Serejevo.
These attacks II Is remarked, have been
committed by intellectuals. Croats and
Bosnians. When one is told that the gov
ernnent at Belgrade is responsible it il
shown conclusively by q Bosnian that
Belgrade is not responsible and that the
accusation fs an attempt to conceal the
real responsibilities. The correspond
bureaucracy. which has created irrec.
oncilable hatred in the hearts of the
students in Bosnia. Croatia and Dali
malta, in all the countries of the Jougo
SlAV, ID FeSpOnSlDfe.
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For twenty years the Austro-Hun-
garian bureaucracy has undertaken the
task of alternating
Repression of the coming genera
rr-rr. tion from all hope OF
Natlonai Ale.a life after his ideal
and sentiments. How? BY barring
hn lot
eccess to employment which is ordi-
nnTtly open to native students.
The crime of Serejevo, according to
the correspondent, was in a certain
measure the result of repressive meas
ures Of the bureaucracy and the yio-
lence Of Austrian officers toward the
students at Mostar. Every time such
crimes are committed the Austro-Hun-
garian authorities brandish the specter
of "panslavism." affirming the existence
Belgrade. But at each inquest that
same bureaucracy has been forced to
confess that 1t has found itself in the
presence of local discomfort, common
to many provinces of the monarchy
among students who are candidates for
the liveral professions. In Bosnia and
in Croatia the Vienna bureaucracy have
narS 1oli1wed ., point, point by point the sinister
way practiced in Lombardy and in
Venice. Vienna has not invented any
thing new In Bosnia.
In Macedonia, from 1880 to 1917 the
Turkish government created an admins
tration which finished by anarchy and
revolution. The British military occu-
pant in Egypt since 1882 to the present
has packed the administration with Brit
ish functionaries or native traitors, with
the result that there is discomfort
Boutros Pas..a was assassinated in Egyp,
by student. and only a few DAYS ago
another Egyptian student attempted to
assassinate the Khedive Abba Hilmy
while returning from the Grand vizirat
at Constantinople. The Vienna govern
ment appears to have established ad-
In Bosnia on the models
which wrecked the Turk in Macedonia
and which may drive the British out of
Egypt.
In Bosnia the statistics from 1910 show >
that of 1922 functionaries in its admins
trative section thirty-one only of these
are Bosnians. and this proportion OF
Aerbs to the Austro- Hungarian func-
donaries Is maintained throughout the
Since 1873 a great num-
Der Of Bosnians have completed their
studies in Austrian universities, and, re-
turning to Bosnia. have failed to find
and the means of living
This condition. the Bosnian correspon-
lent would show, Is the cause Of discon-
tent and disaffection Of which Austria is
1irectly responsible.
CHI. CHAILLE-LoNG