The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
Rv RORIInYE .TEYTIC

mailed without, comment from secret band of terrorists in Zagreb, capital of Croatia, to their comrades in Bel grade, was the torch which set the world afire with war in 1914. That bit of paper wrecked, old, proud em- pires. It gave birth to new, free na- tions.
 I was one of the members of the terrorist band in Belgrade which re- ceiyed it, and in those days and my companions were regarded as desperate criminals. 4 price was on our heads. | Today my little band is seen in a diff ferent light, as pioneer patriots. It is recognized that our secret plans, matched in an obscure cafe in the capi- tai of old Serbia, have led to the inde- pendence of the new Jugo-Slavia, the united nation set free from Austrian domination.
 The little clipping was from the Srobobran, CrOatian journal of limit ed circulation, and consisted of a short telegram from Vienna. This telegram declared that the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand would visit SarajevO, the capital of Bosnia, on June 2S to direct army maneuvers in the neigh boring mountains.
 It reached our meeting place, the cafe called Zlatna Moruana one night the latter part of April, 1914. To un- derstand how great a sensation that little piece of paper caused among us, when it was passed from hand to hand almost in silence, and how greatly it inflamed our hearts, it is necessary to explain just why the Narodna Odbrana existed, the kind of men were in 1t, and the significance of that date, June 2S, on which the archduke dared to enter Sarajevo.
 As everyone knows the old Austrian. Hungarian empire was built by con quest and intrigues, by sales and treach- cries, which held in subjugation many peoples who were neither Austrian nor Hungarian. It taxed them heavily; 1t diverted the products of their toll to serve the wealth of the master state. It interfered in their old freedom by a multiplicity of laws, administered with arrogance. : l 85 Form Terror Band l In a word, it was a rule that was suffered by millions of people in racial and national minorities who hated it. Among these racial and national mi norities were we Bosnians, linked by our family traditions and our love with old Serbia, from which our territory had been taken without justice, but by force.
 Several years before the war, little group of us, 35 in all,, living in .sev- eral bosnian and Herzogovinan cities and villages, formed the Narodha Od- brana, the secret society, the aim of | which was to work for freedom from Austria and union with Serbia. So strict was the police vigilance in Bosnia and Herzegovina that we. set up our headquarters in Belgrade, the capital of our mother country, and always some of us remained at home.
 We were not the only organization which plotted against Austrian rule. But we were the only one which went to the lengthOf direct action, political crimes and demonstrations to inflame the hearts of the people. The others merely distributed nationalistic and revolutionary literature and by argu- ment sought to prepare the ground for revolution. We were the extremists. All the organizations had a loose con nectiOn with each other but none of them knew our plans or when we would strike.
 By 1914 we had succeeded fairly well in shaping the younger generation of Bosina and Herzegovina to ideals of revolution and liberty. Far more than a majority of them were enrolled, in some of the milder revolutionary so- cieties or were sympathetic. But, never more than a few ardent spirits were among the terrOrists.
 One of the first deeds of the Bosnian terrorists was the attempted as- sassination of General Varesanin. commander-in-chief of the Bosnian forces in the Austro-H Hungarian army, in 1910, He escaped, but the attempt was useful. It excited the pOpulace and caused them to take sides. Once they began to discuss the question of liberty or subjugatiOn, naturally most of them fell in on our side. It was also witnessed by a youth named Gavrilo Princip, the boy who later shot Franz Ferdinand. It was his inspiration to di- rect action, and thus led directly to the Sarajevo incident of 1914. It is one reason why on June 2S, 1924, a monu- ment is being unveiled to Princip in Sarajevo on the spot where he killed the archduke and led to his. peoples 1 liberation.
 Bourgeois And Peasant Together Coming up to the world war pc riod, tiik men who were terroristk in 1914 in Rosnia embraced all cla8ses.