Identifier: literarydigesthi01hals (find matches)
Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ister at Belgrade presented the ultimatum asfinally composed, after six, or more, revisions made with aview to making its acceptance impossible, and demanded areply by six oclock two days later. Austria required from the Serbian Government that it printin its official journal an apology for all Pan-Serbian propa-ganda, and for the participation of Serbian army officersin it; that it give warning to all Serbians and to theSerbian army in future to desist from anti-Austrian demon-strations; that Serbia dissolve all societies capable of con-ducting intrigues against Austria; that she curb the activi-ties of the Serbian press in regard to Austria; and thatAustrian officials, independent of the Serbian Government,be permitted to conduct an inquiry in Serbia into theSerajevo plot. At ten minutes to six oclock on July 25,the Serbian Government delivered its reply, in which allthe terms imposed by Austria, except the one providingthat Austrian officials be allowed to conduct investigations 70
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PETER, KING OF SERBIA71 OUTBREAK AND CAUSES on the soil of Serbia, were accepted. That one provisionSerbia did not regard as in accordance with internationallaw and good neighborly relations,^ and asked that it bereferred to The Hague for adjudication. Austria refusedto accept this reply as satisfactory, and her Minister, withhis entire staff, left the Serbian capital. The most formidable ultimatum that one State hadever addrest to another,^ were the terms in which theultimatum was described by Sir Edward Grey. It raised anew crisis, graver than any that had preceded it in tenyears. While ostensibly seeking to punish agitators, andaiming to put an end to an agitation injurious to Austriansafety, the Government of Vienna had in reality challengedRussia—Russia being the avowed protector of Serbia. BothAustria and Serbia prepared for war. Serbian Governmentoffices and all reserves of jnoney in banks were removedfrom Belgrade (Belgrade, being situated on the Danube,and so exposed to a d

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