Austria-Hungary and the Slays. (H. Howes and Co. 6d.)—An account
of the persecutions of the Jugoslays by their Austro-Magyar conquerors and detailed reports of the more important of the political trials that took place between the years 1908-1916. " Moro especially," says the pamphlet, " since the annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina had those high treason trials become so appallingly frequent in all Jugoslav provinces of tho Monarchy ; Austria-Hungary had not only vowed to put an end to Serbia ; sbe inaugurated an open war of extermination against the whole Jugoslav race." The pamphlet goes on : " It is prin- cipally the rising generation, the future of the nation which is being attacked.. There has been, chiefly in Bosnia-Herzegovina, quite a series of prosecutions for high treason of schoolboys at secondary schools and
their masters. • . Many of the prisoners were not even fifteen years of age." The trials described, which include the famous and dramatic Friedjung case, amply illustrate the methods by which political trials ars " cooked " in Austria-Hungary.
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