Incidents Occurring When Collecting Signatures in Support of the May Declaration

The May Declaration that called for the unification of Austro-Hungarian Slovenians, Croats and Serbs into an independent state body under Habsburg rule launched a massive declaration movement with the collection of signatures in support of the declaration. Most of the signatures were collected between December 1917 and March 1918. There were, however, some incidents, whose traces can still be found among the records of the Imperial-Royal Ministry of the Interior.