Only four letters and two numerals were sufficient to make us unanimous, without discussion, as to what we should do about it. There was no advice nor admonition sent with it. At a small table in a very humble cafe, beneath a flickering gas jet we sat and read it. Such were the men into whose hands the tiny bit of newsprint was sent by friends in Bosnia that April night in Belgrade. They were dissimilar in everything except hatred of the oppressor. Inflamed our hearts, it is necessary to explain just why the Narodna Odbrana existed, the kind of men that were in it, and the significance of that date, June 28, on which the Archduke dared to enter Sarajevo.Īs every one knows, the old Austrio-Hungarian Empire was built by conquest and intrigues, by sales and treacheries, which held men of the upper classes were ardent To understand how great a sensation that little piece of paper caused among us when it was passed from hand to hand almost in silence, and how greatly it It reached our meeting place, the cafe called Zlatna Moruna, one night the latter part of April, 1914. The little clipping declared that the Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand would visit Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, June 28, to direct army maneuvers in the neighboring mountains. I was one of the members of the terrorist band in Belgrade which received it.
That bit of paper wrecked old, proud empires. The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinandīorijove Jevtic, one of the leaders of the Narodna Odbrana who was arrested with Gavrilo Princip immediately after the assassination, gave this firsthand account of the killing.Ī tiny clipping from a newspaper, mailed without comment from a secret band of terrorists in Zagreb, capital of Croatia, to their comrades in Belgrade, was the torch which set the world afire with war in 1914. World War I, The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 28 June, 1914
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