Evening star., 1928-11-11
SERAJEVO DROWSY
IN FACE Of FAME
Town Where War Started
With Killing of Archduke
Goes Quiet Way.

BY the Associated Press.
SERAJEVO, Jugo-Slavia, November
10.-While all the world is celebrating
the termination of the World War, this
little Bosnian town, where the war ac-
tually started, slumbers on in its wonted
Oriental lethargy and indolence, SEEM
ingly oblivious of the mighty place it
occupies in the worlds history.
With its green hills studded with
myriads of peaceful Moslenl homesteads,
its ninety minaFets, It's beauti-
full old gardens, cypress trees and tropi-
cal vegetation, Serajevo is indeed pic
ture cf perfect peace. 1t wants to for
get about the war Its 10000 inhabi-
tants seem to be lost in dream emong
the ancient Mohammedan city's lovely
verdured mountains and Towering val
leys.
Except for a large stone bench for
the accommodation CT pedestrians,
which was made bv the Serbs soon
after the armiStice. there is nothing to
mark the historic spot where the World
War actually had its origin.
Monument Was Destroyed.
The ~onument erected by the Aus
TRAN. 10 the memory Of Archdu.s
Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian
throne, and his wife. whose assassina-
ton here June %. 1914, was the pre-
cursor of the world conflict, was de-
stroyed by the Serbs when they TOOK
Serajevo in 1918.
They replaced it with a tablet on
the house in front of which the crime
was committed. This tablet, in turn,
was obliterated by tho Serbs themselves
upon the petition of the municipality of
SerajeVo, 1t being argued that the
phraseology Of the inscription was Of
fensive to Austrians, many thousands
of whom still visit the ancient Bosnian
canital.
The circumstances of the shooting of
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife
Sophia II years ago are still fresh in
the minds of those who witnessed that
tragic event which was to envelop the
entire world in the flames of war. The
archduke, nephew of Emperor Franz
josef of the Austro- Hungarian Empire,
was paying his first off1cial visit to
Serajevo.
Although Bosnia had been a part of
the Austro-Hungarian Empire since
1908, there was no place where the
archduke would have been in greater
danger of his life than Serajevo, for
the Slavs resident there looked upon
him and his uncle as two of the prin-
cipal barriers to their uniting with their
brother Slavs in Serbia.
Warnings Were Ignored.
Ignoring the warnings he received
beforehand upon the perils of such
visit, especially upon the greatest of
Serbian national holidays, the archduke
insisted upon fulfilling his mission.
1t was a splendid clear Summer day.
The city was picture of peace. Yet
there WIS a latent feeling of uneasi-
ness in the streets, especially among
the Serbian population. The archduke
was not popular, and word was passed
secretly among the Slav leaders that a
plan was afoot to kill the heir to the
Austrian throne.
AS the archduke drove to the city
hall in his automobile a bomb was
thrown by a worker named Chabrino-
witch, and number of the archduke's
staff were injured. The archduke, how
ever insisted upon continuing his pro-
cessicn through the town. AS his au-
tomobile approached Franz Josef Ouai
(now Voivoda Stepa QuaD he changed
his plans and ordered the driver to
turn uO a side street.
Pistol Shot Is Fatal.
AS the automobile slowed down Ia
make the fatal turn into the side street
Gavrilo Prinzip, young Bosnian stu
dent, one of group of IL Serbians.
who had waited all morning, arms in
hand. to assassinate the archduke,
stepped forward through the crowd and
fired shot which killed the heir to the
Austrian throne almost instantly.
A second shot rang ont, which, Prin-
zip says, was intended for an Austrian
general escorting the archduke, but It
struck and killed the archduke's wife,
Sophia. In the fash of a second the
whole history of the world had been
changed.
Hardly had the echo of the assas-
sins shots died away when Kaiser Will
helm II of Germany exclaimed: The
Serbs must be cleaned up. and that
nuickly!" Within a few weeks Austro-
Hungary dispatched en- ultimatum TO
Serbia containing the most humiliating
conditions and demanding a response
within 43 hours.
Accepting the advice of other Euro
pean powers, Serbia decided bravely TO
submit to most of Austro- -Hungarys de-
mands. But, to the CONSERVATION of the
entire world, the Vienna government re-
jected Serbia's capitulatory reply as
unsatisfactory" and July % declared
war against Serbia. In another fort
night Europe was drenched In blood.
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