The inner history of the Agram "high treason" trial is
explained by the Vienna correspondent of the Times in the issue of last Saturday. In a recent speech Professor Ma,saryk, the well-known Czech, asserted that the Prince of Montenegro was acquainted with the so-called Southern Slav revolutionary "statute" (on which the whole trial is based) before it was Published by the agent provocateur Nastitch. He further said that the Prince of Montenegro had handed over the " statute " to Austria. Nastitch has written a letter to the Neues Wiener POSTAGE AIILLOAD Tagblatt, ostensibly to " defend his honour," in which he admits that he received payments from Prince Nicholas. Thus it begins to appear that the whole Agram trial is based on a " revolutionary statute " of very doubtful authenticity. It was first published by Nastitch, who after serving the Bosnian police as agent-provocateur transferred his services to Montenegro. So far as the trial has gone it has only pointed to the innocence of the Austro-Hungarian Serbs. But it has suited the Austro-Hungarian authorities to keep alive the bogy of a Pan-Serb danger, and to pi-ovoke mistrust between Servia and Montenegro. We can only say that if Austria- Hungary hopes to settle the vast and intricate Southern Slav problem by such methods she is heading towards a catastrophe.
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