The Austro-Hungarian Note was presented to the Servian Government at 6 o'clock last evening by the Austro-Hungarian Minister at Belgrade, General Baron Giesl von Gieslingen. It demands areply within 48 hours.

The language of the Austro-Hungarian Note is severe, not to say violent. Its tone is that of an indictment. It cites the declaration made by Servia to Austria-Hungary, on the advice of the Powers, on March 31, 1909, at the end of the crisis which attended the annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina. It charges Servia with abetting propaganda against the Monarchy, with tolerating apology for crime, and with, at least, indirect responsibility for the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand and the Duchess of Hohenberg by Bosnian Serbs at Serajevo on June 28.

The Note further alleges that it results from the confessions of the perpetrators of the Serajevo outrage that the assassinations were planned at Belgrade, that the arms and explosives with which the murderers were provided were given to them by Servian officers and officials belonging to an association called the Narodna Obrana, and that the passage into Bosnia of the criminals and of their arms was organised and effected by the chiefs of the Servian Frontier Service.

Times- 24/07/14