Chapter 181： Gunshots in Sarajevo (Part 1)

A genius remembers the address of this site in one second: (Vertex Chinese), the fastest update! No ads! Time does not change by anyone's thoughts, it follows its own footsteps, and the crown prince of Austro-Hungary also changes with time As time passed, he was ready to visit Sarajevo, but a group of people here did not welcome him at all.

At the end of March, the news about Grand Duke Ferdinand’s visit to Sarajevo in the "Srbobullan Daily" has been noticed by those who are interested. In Sarajevo, there is an organization called ‘Youth Bosnia’ which is keen on national unity. A member of this organization cut out the news and sent it to Nedliko Chabrinovic in Belgrade.

After receiving the letter, Chabrinovic gave it to Gavrino Principe at lunch, a Serbian nationalist living in Bosnia and attending school in Belgrade. He watched the tailored news and thought over and over again. Finally, in the evening, he met Chabrinovic in a coffee shop called Kranz and proposed the idea of ​​going to Sarajevo to assassinate Grand Duke Ferdinand together.

Chabrinovic is only 19 years old. He is more like an anarchist than Prinship, preferring to assassinate Oscar Portiorek, the governor of Austria-Hungary in Bosnia. According to his words, because the governor was a slave of the Habsburg dynasty, he was sent to Bosnia to torture the Serbs. However, in the end Prinship convinced Chabrinovic by faith.

Principe’s suggestions are very positive. Although they have no weapons, they will all have connections with Serbian black hands. The two can accomplish this with their help. Principe once participated in the National Self-Defense Force. This organization was established in 1908 with the main purpose of resisting the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary. And he received training in the National Self-Defense Force in 1912, the instructor was Major Voya Tankovich.

This is also a fierce man. He personally killed the queen's brother in a coup in Serbia in 1903. He is also a great Serbianist. After the outbreak of the first Balkan War, he hoped to smuggle Prinship across the Ottoman border and destroy its railways and bridges to cooperate with the army's actions. However, Prinship was eliminated because he was only 18 years old at the time because he was thin and sick, but he still maintained contact with the National Self-Defense Force.

Later, a more radical organization was splintered from the National Self-Defense Forces, called the ‘Unification or Death’ organization, which is known as the Mafia. Principe continued to keep in touch with the Black Hand Society.

The leader of the ‘Black Hand’ organization is precisely Colonel Dragutin, the head of the Serbian intelligence department who has appeared before. And this organization is very mysterious, with heads, bones, daggers, explosives, and a bottle of poison printed on the flag of the Black Hand. This means that their members will take poison and commit suicide after completing the assassination.

Principe and Chabrinovic are not activists of the Mafia, but only know some of them, Milan Siganovich is one of them. He had previously trained with Principe in the hands of Major Tankovich, but he did a better job than Principe in training subjects. And Siganovic stole 6 grenades during the Balkan War.

After listening to Principe’s plan, Siganovich was willing to provide hidden grenades and suggested that the two bring pistols to prevent the grenades from exploding. At the same time, it is best to seek help from the former instructor Major Tankovich.

Later, Principe approached Major Koswich to explain his plan, so the former instructor asked Siganovic to train the two so that they would not miss someone.

After a short training, Major Voya Tankovich provided them with 4 Browning pistols and ammunition, 150 dinars in cash and potassium cyanide, which they could use to commit suicide when the Grand Duke was assassinated. Obviously, all of this is supported by the Black Hand Society.

During the training, Prinship found another person who was willing to go to Sarajevo with the two to assassinate the Austro-Hungarian crown prince. Graberz was also a peripheral member of the Mafia. After talking with Prinship, he said that he also wanted to go, considering the people. Dolly was assassinated, so Prinship agreed with him.

On May 26, the three arrived at the border town of Shakba, where Serbian Army Major Popovich was waiting for them, preparing for them a smuggling plan and providing them with forged documents. Among them, Chabrinovic will enter Tsvornik on the border of Bosnia. There will be another person who will drive him to Tuzla, and then take the train to Sarajevo.

As for Prinship and their weapons to cross the Delina River near Letjesnika, a Serbian customs officer will help them sneak across the river in order to meet Chabrinod in Tuz Pulling together, the two must pass the police checkpoint in Lupa. They are bold and smart. They took advantage of a farmer who accidentally put weapons and ammunition in his car, and then retrieved the weapon through the checkpoint.

Then the three met in Tuzla, and then they handed the package containing weapons and ammunition to another accomplice, Mishko Ivanovic. This is both a good citizen (he owns a bank and a cinema) and a member of the Serbian National Self-Defense Force. Ivanovic placed weapons and ammunition in his attic, and the other personnel continued to Sarajevo.

While Prinship and others were still stranded in Bosnia, other helpers were already busy. Danilo Ilyich used to be the principal of the school and a bank clerk, but later became a radical nationalist with all his heart. He took Prinship and Chabrinovic back to his home, where he and his mother were the only ones.

Ilyich met the two when I went to Belgrade last time. Principe wrote to Ilyich in April, roughly speaking about his plan to assassinate Grand Duke Ferdinand, and suggested that Ilyich recruit a few people in Sarajevo. A local assassin. So Ilyich was stuck in it before the four came, and now he is sinking deeper and deeper.

After Ivanovic got the weapon and ammunition, he hid it in a box of white sugar, wrapped it in white paper and then trapped it with twine. For a while, he left this box of sugar in his friend's car without anyone looking after it. Later, after receiving a message from Principe, Ivanovic took the weapon to Sarajevo and handed it to Ilyich.

After taking over the weapons and ammunition, Illich put them in a small box and locked them, hiding them under the couch in his mother's bedroom.

Now the assassins from Serbia are ready in Sarajevo, waiting for the visit of Grand Duke Ferdinand.