Time is not changed by anyone's ideas, it moves forward at its own pace, and as time goes by, the Crown Prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire began to prepare to visit Sarajevo, but there was a group of people here who did not welcome him at all.
At the end of March, the news about Archduke Ferdinand's upcoming visit to Sarajevo in the "Srpobulan Daily" has been noticed by interested people. There is an organization in Sarajevo that is keen on national reunification called "Young Bosnia". One of the members of this organization
Members saw the news and cut it out and sent it to Nedeljko Chabrinović in Belgrade.
After receiving the letter, Czabrinović handed it over lunch to Gavrino Princip, a Serbian nationalist living in Bosnia and attending school in Belgrade. He read
He pondered over and over the clipped news, and finally in the evening, he met Chabrinović in a coffee shop called Kranz and proposed the idea of going to Sarajevo to assassinate Archduke Ferdinand together.
Chabrinovič was only 19 years old. He was more of an anarchist than Princip. He would rather assassinate Oscar Potiorek, the Austro-Hungarian governor in Bosnia. According to him, the incident happened because the governor was really
The slaves of the Habsburg dynasty were sent to Bosnia to torture the Serbs. However, in the end, Princip relied on his faith to convince Chabrinović.
The suggestions put forward by Princip were very positive. Although they did not have weapons, they were all connected with Serbian black hands. They could use their help to complete this matter. Princip once participated in the National Self-Defense Force, an organization established in
In 1908, the main purpose was to resist the Austro-Hungarian annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1912, he received training from the National Self-Defense Forces, and the instructor was Major Voja Tankosvich.
This was also a fierce man who personally killed the queen's brother during the 1903 coup in Serbia. He was also a great Serbist. After the outbreak of the first Balkan War, he hoped to smuggle Princip across the Ottoman border to destroy it.
Railways and bridges cooperated with the military's operations. However, Prinship, who was only 18 years old at the time, was thin and sick and was eliminated from the competition. However, he still maintained contact with the National Self-Defense Forces.
Later, a more radical organization split from the National Self-Defense Forces, called the "Unity or Death" organization, which is known as the Black Hand. And Princip continued to maintain contact with the Black Hand.
The leader of the Black Hand organization is Colonel Dragutin, the head of the Serbian intelligence department who appeared earlier. Moreover, this organization is very mysterious. The flag of the Black Hand organization is printed with a head, bones, daggers, explosives and a bottle of poison.
This means that their members will commit suicide by taking poison after completing the assassination operation.
Princip and Chabrinovic were not active members of the Black Hand, but only knew some of its people. Milan Ciganovic was one of them. He had previously served with Princip in the hands of Major Tankosvich.
Trained, but did better than Princip in training subjects. And Siganovich stole 6 grenades during the Balkan War.
After hearing Prinship's plan, Siganovich was willing to provide the hidden grenades, and suggested that the two of them bring pistols to prevent the grenades from exploding. At the same time, it was best for him to seek help from his former instructor, Major Tankosovich.
help.
Later, Princip found Major Kosvich and explained his plan, so the former instructor asked Sijanovich to train the two of them so that they would not miss the target.
After a brief training, Major Voya Tankosvich provided them with 4 Browning pistols and ammunition, 150 dinars in cash and potassium cyanide, which they could use to commit suicide after assassinating the Grand Duke.
Obviously all this is supported by the Black Hand.
During the training, Princip found another person who was willing to go to Sarajevo with the two of them to assassinate the Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary. Grabage was also a peripheral member of the Black Hand. After talking to Princip, he expressed that he wanted to go as well, considering the number of people involved.
Dolly assassinated him and Princip agreed with him.
On May 26, the three arrived at the border town of Shakba, where Serbian Army Major Popovic was waiting for them, preparing a plan for their smuggling and providing them with forged documents. Among them, Chabrinović
He will be borrowed to enter Zvornik on the Bosnian border. There will be another reliable person who will drive him to Tuzla, and then take the train to Sarajevo.
As for Princip, the two will cross the Drina River near Lejesnica with weapons, and a Serbian customs official will help them sneak across the river. In order to join Chabrinod in Tuzla, the two must
They were brave and clever when they passed the police checkpoint in Lupa. They took advantage of a farmer who accidentally put weapons and ammunition in his car and then retrieved the weapons themselves through the checkpoint.
The three then met up in Tuzla, where they handed the package containing weapons and ammunition to another accomplice, Mishko Ivanovich, a good citizen (he owned a bank and a
Cinema), and were members of the Serbian National Self-Defense Force. Ivanovic placed the weapons and ammunition in the attic of his home, and the other personnel continued to travel to Sarajevo.
While Princip and others were still stranded in Bosnia, other helpers were already busy. Danilo Ilic was once the principal of a school and a bank clerk, and later became a radical nationalist. He brought Princip,
Chabrinovitch took it back to his home, where he and his mother were the only ones.
Ilyich had met the two of them when he went to Belgrade last time. Princip wrote to Ilych in April, briefly describing his plan to assassinate Archduke Ferdinand, and suggested that Ilyich recruit a few people in Sarajevo.
A local assassin. So Ilyich was deeply involved before the four people came, and now he is getting deeper and deeper into it.
After Ivanovich obtained the weapons and ammunition, he hid them in a box of sugar, wrapped it in white paper and trapped it with hemp rope. For a while, he left the box of sugar in a friend's car without anyone watching it.
.Later, after receiving the message from Princip, Ivanovich took the weapon to Sarajevo and handed it to Ilyich.
After Ilyich took over the weapons and ammunition, he locked them in a small box and hid them under the couch in his mother's bedroom.
Assassins from Serbia are now ready in Sarajevo, waiting for Archduke Ferdinand's visit.
