The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-11-11
By JAMES A. MILLS Associated Press Staff Writcr)

SERAJEVO, Jugo-Slavia.-While
 all the world is celebrating the ter
 imitation of the World War, this
 little Bosnian town, where the war
 actually started, slumbers on in it's
 wonted Oriental lethargy and indo-
 lence, seemingly oblivious of the
 mighty place it occupies in the
 worlds history.
 | With it's green hills studded with myriads of peaceful Moslem home steads, it's ninety-and mine nina rets, it's beautiful old gardens, cy- press trees and tropical vegetation, Serajevo is indeed a picture of per feet peace. It wants to forget about the war. Its 60,000 inhabi- tants seem to be lost in a dream among the ancient Mohammedan city's lovely verdured mountains and flowing valleys.
 Except for a large stone bench
 for the accommodation of pedes-
 trians, which was made by the Serbs soon after the Armistice, there is nothing to mark the historic spot where the World War actually had 1 it's origin.
 The monu-lcnt erected by the Austrians to the memory of Arch duke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, and his wife. whose assassination here June 28, 1914, was the precursor of the world con- flict, was destroyed by the Serbs when they took Serajevo in 1913. They replaced it with tablet in the house in front of which the crime was committed. This tab let, in turn, was obliterated by the Serbs themselves upon the petition of the municipality of Serajevo, it being argued that the phraseology of the inscription was offensive to Austrians, many thousands of whom still visit the ancient Bosnian capi- tai
 The. circumstances of the shoot ling of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophia 15 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 the Emperor Franz Joseph of the Austro- Hun garian empire, was paying his first official visit to Serajevo.
 Although Bosnia had been a part of the Austra- Hungarian empire since 1908, there was no place where the archduke would have been in greater danger of his life than Ser ajevo, for the Slavs resident there locked upon him and his uncle as two of the principal barriers to their uniting with their brother Slavs in Serbia.
 Ignoring the warnings he receiv- ed beforehand upon the perils of such visit, especially upon the gayest of Serbian national holidays, the archduke insisted upon fulfill ing his mission. a''e
 It was a splendid clear summer day The city was a picture of peace. Yet there was a latent feel ing of uneasiness in the streets, es- pecially among the Serbian popula- ton. The archduke was not popu- lar 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 bomb was thrown by worker named Chabrinovitch, and a number of the arch-dukes staff were injured The archduke, however, insisted upon continuing his procession through the town. As his automo- bile approached Franz Joseph Quai (now voivoda Stepa QuaD he changed his plans and ordered the driver to turn up a side street.
 As the automobile slowed down to make the fatal turn into the side street Gavrilo Prinzip, young Bos- nian student, one of a group of 12 Serbians, who had waited all morn ing, arms in hand, to assassinatc the archduke, stepped forward and fired shot, which killed the heir