His conversation was In broken German. "Father 84, mother 45. Two brothers. Father didn't drink. 1 was head of my class. Austrian professors. treated me badly, Read many books, anarchist, socialist, nationalist. Never talked much. Fell in love. Ideal love.
Never Kissed her. Always thought of her, Never wrote her "Our ideal, all' students' ideal Union of Jgorlav people: Serbians, Croats. Slovenes, but not under Austria, Thought if we brought Austria in dimeult. position, revolution would come, By H.R, Kntexennocken "Never thought war would tome. Could not think such a world war would break out on account of such a thing. Thought world war might break out some time, but not then.
"Thought would be just revolution. thing. That The time was 1916. Serbia had just been wiped out by the German armies. The entire nation, fighting every step. of the way, had been driven out, literally out of the country. Princip was denied all books, land never saw a newspaper, but when this happened his jailers told him of tt "All, all is destroyed," he cried to the physician.
"Everything I lived for. Everything Tmade my ideal. My Serbian peopl "Can't feel guilty. Could not know. World war would have come anyway, "Motive: "revenge, love Uberty! Liberty! My Serbian people!"
Prinelp was not demented. He was an exceptionally intelligent boy. Up fu one of the hills that surround Sarajevo is the old cemetery. There in a mass grave, decked with wide slabs of stone, is buried the body of Prin. cip, brought back from the Austrian prison where he died, with the bodies Of nine other members of his revolutionary organization.
The dates on the stones are memorable. He died on April 28, 1918. He ied believing his Serbian people had been crushed for ever. ust eight months later, on December 1, 1918, the Jugoslavian that fell an Novem. ber 11, 1918, ten million men had died. Liberty did come to his people, Dut at whata" price. To-day the fanaticisms of Europe are at least as strong as 1914, Wilt Another Come?
Will another Sarajevo come?
tis the one thing that statesmen of Europe fear most, to-day. It is the tone thing that cannot be predicted, cannot be provided against. There are at least three heads of states Europe to-day whose sudden death might bring catastrophe to all the Western world, All three of them are surrounded by police to an extent hardly known in the past But the history of assassinations has shown that no police protection can avail against a man willing to give up his own life for the life of the man he fs after. In Imperial Russia Social Revolutionaries got every mi they wanted. When in secret council they condemned a Tear, a grand-duke, a governor to death the sentence was as good as the Tzar's own.
Against political fanaticism orderly plans of men are helpless. Until Faging nationalism that to-day divi des Europe subsides or seities into disciplined forms, Europe cannot be safe from disaster and no prediction on the prospects of be made without seve."
To-nay in Sarajovo three Jugoslav soldiers, tall, brown, lean-faced, stop and read the inscription on the corner where "the war started." "proclaimed Iiberty!" They are the only persons in sight. It is a Mohammedan holiday and Sarajevo, half-Moslem, is quiet. The only sound is the rippling of the water in the river, and the clang of the soldiers boots as they turn and walla away, "We were seldom bothered with Stowaways in the Inter-Colonial Trade, but on one occasion we had father an unusual' one aboard a barque on which I was second mate 'The Captain owned a rather. pro: fable dairy farm. up. the Kipara iver, near Dargaville where we were Toading Kauri pine' for Melbourne. His form, one might say, was a sort Of sheet anchor to windward fiw the end of sail'and the coming! fof steam into' the timber. trade.
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