Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-04-18
SERBIAN AUTHORITY
RAISES VEIL ON ROYAL
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story want again to lay stress on the
fact that Tisza and the court of Vienna
simply exploited the patriotic enthu-
siasm of some of our young people.
They, and only they, were THE Hid
den Hand" who pushed those youths
forward to shed blood.
Neither the Serbian government nor
the Serbian revolution organizations
We're in any way responsible.
Thus the work of Bismarck and An
Grassy seemed to be completed, and,
with the crushing of Serbia which was
to follow, there was nothing to prevent
q Teutonic dominion in the Balkans,
with a triumphal march to Salonika
and afterwards to England.
Our revolutionary movement did not
aim at supporting the tottering throne
of the Habsburgs, but up till the
eleventh hour we were keeping within
the limits of the constitution.
During 900 years the Habsburgs had
opportunities to captivate the souls of
the Jugo- Slays. In the wars against
the Turkish invasion we provided the
Habsburgs with whole armies; we
We're rapid, however, with a German
Turkish alliance whose aim was in
tended to eXterminate our race.
On the 26th of July, when Serbia had
to answer the ultimatum, I went to
Dalmatia for my holidays. At o'clock
I was in Tara, where Serbia's answer
was announced to the population with
huge placards calling for the mobiliza-
tion of all the Jugo-Slav forces.
l returned with great haste to
Trieste, but a detective was already
waiting for me, and I was thrown Into
the criminal gaol, where I had been &C
customed to meet criminals whom !
defended in the courts.
Assembled there already were some
500 people, priests, barristers, deputies,
schoolmasters, wealthy peasants, and
ladies' who were engaged somehow in
national work.
The real war had started
Serbia was an enemy who had to be
crushed openly. Seven millions Of
Jugo- Slavs under the sway of the
Habsburgs had to be suffocated in the
underground cellars, hanged on gall
lows in the courts Of thousands Of pri-
sons, and starved in the camps Of
German Austria and Magyar Hungary.
Austria's war against her own sub
jects was waged in darkness.
The Habsburgs hanged and shot
their own subjects; they cast them into
prison, and carried them off as host
ages by the thousands.
They interned, appropriated, deport-
ed and starved the populations Of
whole provinces.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria
fnpugurated an official reign of ter
ND
experienced even at the hands of the
Turks.
1t looked as if the entente powers
might indeed fight for and save Serbia,
but not the Serbs nor Jugo- Slavs, for
there would be none left of them to
rejoice in the blessings Of peace
RECORD OF HoRRos.
can see red and black before my
eyes when 1 recall to my memory my
Eaolers and the tales which I was
told by people who escaped from those
horrors inflicted upon Jugo- Slav wom-
en-. children and old men.
When Vojovic. the great Jugo-Slav
national poet, who had been held as a
hostage and most vilely treated, was
released on his Goth birthday, in Octi-
Der 1917, he addressed his compatri-
OTIS in words which they still treasure.
when 1 see thus roused," he said,
"and in the height of enthusiasm, not
because of me but because of the idea
which you are making manifest at this
moment, 1 call to mind the old prince
in my Trilogy,' Gone of the poets
plays) when he asks: why hasn't the
devil taken you yet? Why are your
lips not stuck dumb with horror at
what we are passing through? Why
are your hands not turned to stone,
but YOU are still able to clan and shout