BOUNDARY DISPUTE

Chronicle (Levin), 11 March 1946, Page 5

BOUNDARY DISPUTE

Press Assn. -

Italy afid Yugoslavia COMMiSSiON REGINS WOREC ./

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Reeeived Monday, 11-.5 a.m. LONDON, March 10. The International Commission sion investigaung the ltalianYugoslav boundary dispute began m Trieste to-day by drawing up plans for its proeedure and thc commission 's internal organisation Frecautions Taken Trieste was cairn, but civil ana military police were fully mobilised. Four British warships have^mveci xi i'ixcjisoc; aiiU i.Oj.lliaulu!lS Oi aircraft were seen overhead. The official Yugoslav news agency Tanjug, m a stauement repiymg tv, •aiarming reports ' sara to v . j.een puolished abroad, declared that reim'orced Yugosiav mnioary control along the Morgan demarcacion line between Zones A. and B. in the disputed province oi Veneziaguidia was pur-eiy oi a aucmiK .i.ia,racter. Tanjug denied that Yugoslav troop concentrations were ror the. purpose of applying pressurS on tne population m uie zuiies Wioii a view to encouragmg a nsing there and organising a mmtary puoscn. Terrorists Active A Trieste news agency assertec. that the concentrations were fulljjUstintci uy auMWorthy information regardmg movements of Polish ui'oops in Nortn itary, as well a^ increased activities by Qvislmgs ana bands of terrorists. The statement alleged that terrorist bands 'consistmg oi Utashis, Cnetmks aiiu. Slovenian White Guara Fascisu, with headquarters in Zone A, art ii'eeiy oiganismg anct bein^ instructed for the carrying out oi . terrorist acts m Zjbhe B, tne f ugoslav occupied side of the Morgan j xine. it axso aucgea tnat sixic. I February 4 Domoing and transpoiu j aircraft had ofcen riov/n over Zoiii I B, regarding which Yugoslavia has ! handed the British representative.. I at Beigrade t .vo military and one i dinlomatic notes.