He has also issued a proclamation to the army and navy couched in similar language: The Austrian emperor, Francis Joseph, has addressed letters to the Austrian and Hungarian premiers expressing the grief caused him by the death of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and his determination to follow the way which he knows to be right to his last breath for the welfare of his peoples. Photograph: CorbisĪ semi-official communiqué issued in Budapest warns Serbia that although Austria-Hungary does not desire a war with Serbia, she expects the Serbian government to fulfil all those obligations in connection with "the crime which was undoubtedly promoted in Belgrade". Soldiers arrest Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassin, Gavrilo Prinzip, in Sarajevo. The War Memoirs of David Lloyd George (Nicholson & Watson, 1933-38) Austria's warning to Serbia.However, such official reports as came to hand did not seem to justify the alarmist view she took. "I remember that some time in July, an influential Hungarian lady called upon me at 11 Downing Street and told me that we were taking the assassination of the archduke much too quietly that it had provoked such a storm throughout the Austrian Empire as she had never witnessed - and that unless something were done immediately, it would certainly result in war with Serbia, with the incalculable consequences which such an operation might precipitate in Europe. Manchester Guardian, JChancellor Lloyd George later recalls a timely warning.The archduke was regarded in certain Serbian quarters as one of the greatest opponents of the pan-Serbian movement. As the duchess was in the car he hesitated, but afterwards quickly fired two shots. He made his attempt where the car had to slacken speed when turning into Francis Joseph Strasse. Prinzip declared he had intended for a long time to kill some eminent personage from nationalist motives.
He is 19 and was born at Grahovo, in the district of Livno. Sarajevo, 6pm: The assassin of the archduke and his wife is a student named Gavrilo Prinzip. The Slavs, who are a great majority of the people, numbering 22,500,000 against 11,000,000 Germans and 9,000,000 Magyars, remain indignantly hostile to such a political system. Austria-Hungary is, as a result of territorial divisions and constitutional differences, ruled partly by the Germans and partly by the Magyars. In 1908 Austria, without consulting the other parties to the treaty, annexed the occupied territory. In the afternoon in another part of the town a Serb student fired a revolver at the car, killing both the archduke and the auchess.īosnia and Herzegovina have been in Austrian occupation since 1878, when the Treaty of Berlin authorised the dual monarchy to hold the two provinces. During the morning a bomb was thrown at the imperial motor-car, but its occupants escaped unhurt. He was in Bosnia directing the manoeuvres of the Austrian Army Corps stationed in the province, and had devoted yesterday to a procession through the capital. Two attempts were made on the archduke's life during the day.
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