Black+Hand

= Black Hand .= In October 1908, just days after Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina,serbian men, some of them ranking Serbian ministers, officials and generals, held a meeting at City Hall in Belgrade. They formed a semi-secret society called //Narodna Odbrana// (National Defense). The purpose of the socety was to recruit and train people for a possible war between Serbia and Austria. They also had Anti-Austria propaganda. There were also spies to work inside the empire's provinces.