A strange picture of the tragi-comedy of Servian Court politics
is given in a recent issue of Die Information—the well-known and well-informed Viennese news-sheet—by a Belgrade correspondent of that journal. Apprehending that his hold on Servia cannot last much longer, Milan is alleged to be diligently feathering his nest with a view to providing for his needs in exile. "Large sums, which could not possibly be saved out of the Royal grant, are being lodged at various foreign banks to the credit of the ex-King." At the same time we are told that the curt refusal of the Russian Minister to attend either Mass in the Royal chapel on Easter Day or the State breakfast after the service has extinguished hopes of a rapprochement with Russia, and led to rumours of the Minister's recall. There is certainly no more extraordinary instance of national ac- quiescence in a self-imposed incubus than Servia's protracted submission to the sinister influence of the ex-King Milan.
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