The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-08-18

| burger and the Hohenzollern. there by
| the blossOming roses, had agreed upon
an attack by Austro-Hungary upon
Serbia, with German backing. Reports
that he received from confidential
men on the other side of the border
about the coming maneuvers in Bos-
MIA strengthed his conviction that
these military exercises were to form
the immediate prelude to the planned
attack.
Plotting the Murder.
Longer deliberation caused him to
reach the conclusion that only the re-
moval OF the AustrO-Hungarian heir
apparent. whom he regarded as the
chief war propagandist could save
his unprepared and weary fatherland
from the horrors of invasion and de-
feat. The idea of violence no longer
frightened him, for several months
before he had already agreed with a
Bulgarian revolutionary committee
upon an unexecuted attack upon
Ferdinand of Coburg, and he had also
once before sent former leader OF
lawless bands to Vienna for the pur-
pose Of numbering Franz Josef or
Franz Ferdinand
1.-The course of events so willed 1t
that just as he was considering the
translation of his thoughts into acts
two young men from Bosnia with the
same intention came to see Major
Tankozitch and ask him for advice
and aid. With his customary deter
mination, Dimitriyevitch took charge
Of the matter, had the Bosnians in
structed In the use of arms by TankO-
Fitch and then sent them to Serajevo. |
On June 10 the colonel revealed to a |
meeting of the executive committee |
of the organization Unity or Death |
what was going on, giving expressly
as the reason for his action the neces-
sity Of preventing an attack upon the !
homeland by the big neighbor. If
German war guilt philologists have all
too innocently explained the war by
upon Serbia as Pro
phylaxis Against the World War In
way Of thinking the
murder of Franz Ferdinand was Pro
ohylaxis Against the Austro- Serbian
War
But none of the members of the
executive committee, except Tanko-
itch. would have anything to do with
he deed planned. and they implored
)imitriyevitch to abandon his project.
lie promised to do so, and 1T appears
avs StanOyevltch. that he made such
n attempt. but either 1t was too late
n the plotters in Serajevo would not
hey him. Things took their fatal
curse.
''But If Dimitriyevitch, as the prin-
lpal organizer OF the attack, was not I
he very highest. but still was high
fficer in an important post, the very t
act of his guilt testifies to the COM
lete innocence Of the Serbian govern {
rent After both Balkan wars the
ictorious officers corps, and above all
lie Unity or Death society, had be- {
ONE somewhat presumptuous and :
as striving for influence upon poIiti- ?
ii matters. Especially in the newly r
on territory, in south Serbia, there q
ere violent clashes between the mill 8
try and civilian authorities. An or
er establishing the superiority of the 81
william power had to be recalled un- N
er pressure Of the secret league, and
the summer of 1914 Pashitch, the M
ader of the civil government, and "
chief of the military
lrty. were facing each other as
tier, irreconcilable opponents. a =
''The conflict continued during the II
ar and in the spring of 1917 Dimi-
iyevitch was court-martialed-on
arge of having organized on the al
lloni5i front an attempt to murder
exander, the heir to the throne, and H
proclaim a military dictatorship
ndemned to death and shot in
me-"