"Dr.  von  Bilinski  least  of  all  could  have  assumed
that  a  non-military  visit  was  to  be  included  in  the
military  programme.  If  Dr.  von  Bilinski  had  had
any  knowledge,  from  the  reports  of  the  Provincial
Governor,  that  the  police  were  quite  unequal  to
their  task,  it  would  obviously  have  been  the  duty
of  both  of  them  to  prevent  the  journey  under  any
circumstances."  (Gooss,  Vienna  Cabinet,  pages  46,

47-)

Soon  afterwards,  on  July  I3th,  the  Ministerial  Coun-
cillor von  Wiesner,  who  was  dispatched  to  Serajevo  to
inspect  the  documents  used  in  the  inquiry  connected
with  the  trial  of  the  murderers,  telegraphed  :

"  Nothing  to  prove  or  presume  complicity  of  the
Serbian  Government  in  the  attack  or  in  its  prepara-
tion or  the  supplying  of  weapons.  Rather  there  are
grounds  for  considering  this  entirely  out  of  the
question."

Thus  those  who  were  guilty  of  this  bloody  deed
were  not  to  be  looked  for  in  the  Serbian  Government ;
the  responsibility  for  it  lay  rather  with  the  ignorance,


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the  thoughtlessness  and  the  shamelessly  provocative
methods  of  Austrian  despotism.
The  factors  which  evoked  the  attempt  on  the  Arch-
duke were  the  same  as  those  which,  in  consequence  of
it,  led  directly  to  the  far  more  dreadful  attack  on  the
world's  peace.
Achilles  slaughtered  twelve  Trojans  at  the  funeral
of  his  friend  Patroclus.  For  the  funeral  ceremonies  of
Francis  Ferdinand,  for  four  years,  many  millions  of  men
from  all  the  five  continents  were  slain.
