The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-08-18
TRACE WORLD WAR
TO SERB COLONEL
Made Effort Too Late to Avoid
Tragedy at Saraievo.
AFTERWARD LOST HIS LIFE

civilian group led by Premier Nfchola
, Pashitch in the summer of 1914, wa
the principal character in the plo
which resulted in the murders of Sera
Jevo on June %, 1914, that started tn
worldwide confagration, according t.
Prof. Stanoye Stanoyevitch of TIL
University of Belgrade. who has writ
ten pamphlet, 1.-THE Murder of Arch
duke Franz Ferdinand: n Contribu
tion to the History of the Origin o.
the World War;
Professor Stanoyevitch says tina
his information was obtained from
statements made by persons In close
touch with the situation at the time
of the murder. His charge cannot be
| denied by Dimitriyevitch himself, as
| the latter was court-martialed an6
| shot in 1917: nor can Major Voyislay
| Tankozitch. the right-hand man OF
| Dimitriyevitch, be called as a witness
as he fell in action early in the war
The Serbian professors pamphlet.
just translated into German and pub
Iished in Frankfort. confirms the gen
orally accepted theory that the Ser
bian government knew nothing about
the plot. something admitted even by
the leading Austrian statesmen; but 1t
goes further and gives a plausible ex-
PLANTATION of what nerved the arm of
GavriO Prinzep, the boy slayer of
Franz Ferdinand and his wife. Her
mann Wendell, a German writer well
acquainted with Balkan politics. in
CRY .iviy aJ,ye,
work, says:
"In order to make plausible the sit
uation among the Serbs from which
developed the thought of killing the
most visible representatives of the
Danube monarchy. he outlines with
sure strokes a century and half of
Serbian, indeed of South Slavic, de-
velopment. and shows how the holding
down Of an elementary popular move
ment by the dynastic selflshness Of
the Hapsburgs was bound to exercise
an evil, poisonous effect upon the
minds of the masses
"Of course. 1t was only among the
revolutionary youth Of the South
Slavic part of Austria Hungary where
the ferrnent of action was working,
for two successful, but also costly,
wars had inspired all circles of the
kingdom of Serbia with a desire for
the longest possible peace. This de-
sire was shared by the officers corps.
In which. since the murder of Alexan-
der and Draga Obrenovitch in 1908,
some symptoms inimical to the peace
full development OF the state had
shown themselves
Enter the Leader
"Partly for the protection of their
persons and partly also for the safe
of their personal interests,
The officers participating in the con-
spiracy later formed an organization |
hat more than once sought to infu-
ance the course of domestic politics. |
But the more the new conditions be- |
,ame firmer, through the development |
f democratic institutions, and the |
more the attempts at interference by !
his unconstitutional factor were re- |
sisted by the bourgeosie, the more the |
,roup Of conspirators retreated to the |
of the stage of politics.
"But when the annexa ton crisis was |,
Vcrking nightly upon the souls Of all |
Serbs, the officer-conspirators of 1903
.ot into action. Because they regarded
he patriotic society 'Narodna Cd
rama which arose in connection
With the annexation crisis, as Of a
urely cultural nature. a number of
hem in 1911 founded the secret
aague 'Uyedinyenye al Smert' (Unlty
r DEATH, which soon had 300 men,
ers. 1t was modelled on the italian
'arbonari societies, and. quite in the
tyle of old-fashioned cOnspiratOry
strOye TO solve the
cribs national problem through fevo-
tionary means and acts Of terror.
AT the head of this league stood
ian who seemed created to be a con-
orator AS a twenty-seven-year-
aptain Dragutin DimitrIyevitch had,
trough his energy on the occasion Of
taking away with the last of the
brenovitchs. removed an unexpected
bstacle from the road. Since then
he gifted and educated officer. who |
the meantime had advanced to
on the general
aft. had remained the same restless
laracter. An honest man. fiery
ntriot. but also filled with stormy ! ,
passitrnately in favor OF | !,
,cret underground activities, dog
site and not free from vanity, he
,ercised his fascinating power over ,
e Younger officers in particular. His :
ost devoted comrade was Major
ovislav Tankozitch, who. under a
Iiet and mild exterior cnn~ea'r-' ~
lhridled and md sciplined nature
ID who, as leader of rowing ban is
Macedonia, had displayed reckless
urage about political affairs. abon+ n
G real needs of state, they both ;,
q only faint and vague conceptions !.
It nimitriyevitch was very deter .
med in carrying out what he had III
Z head
AFTER the meeting of Franz Ferdi-
nd and Wilhelm III in Knnrishr.
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