THE BALKANS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 410, 20 January 1909, Page 7

THE BALKANS.

MdYEMENpOR A GREATER SERVIA. : ' : PUQTTINd IH OROATIA. ? : -' 7 -' FIFTY-TWO' IN AGRAM, ; (HT ASSoqiATtON^oi'ltllonT) ~ L" v\O:v:jv : V;j'.- January 13,. :•■ Fifty-tW '/persons, mostly, priests and teachers;, tvitb/a.few' tradosmon,;,have been indicted; at Agi;aro,. the capital ofCrostia, on a charge ;of'i'tre(isoH. Z^', , : ,:. '.It is' were.'plotting for, the £opßration,,b'{; ; ;,Oroatia,, Slavoniai and Bosnia 'froro'tlif'Awstr^Hvins«i»R : :Empirej and'.tbeir.inclijsiqti ■w'itK'Seryiai ■ PAN-SEBBISM ■ AND r *AU?T!HAN POUCY. .■Cr6itin-Slavoßiß>hos,its i .:.own_Ban i or Gover. nor ; (at prespnt' Baron. Paul; Kaucb): and Uβ own'provincial 'diet fop-tUe:transaot>ou of-pro-vinoiil .matters j t buf isunder the Hiingarißh: the iCioatian deputies aw / obstructionists. ■ The Taciaj and lanKuago' issws are never quite -dead, and Croatian,hatred of the Magyars, ,the;,rujng Hungarian raco; «spress«s itself■ both'.in, tn« Eeiohstag and ■Jμ public rJots. ■ con.' tains -8,750,000 2,135,000 Germans, 2,020,000 Slovaks, '3,8Q0,000 Eumaniailß, 1,680,000 Croatians, 1(05.2,000 Servians, and others. Various sohomes■ have'-be«n devised to.-wparato the Slavbnio from.the non-Slavonio races, ana pus to form a. third and jnoro homogeneous-state. Thiiidea has presented itself in two conflicting farms-firsjly.-as' a .Slavonic IToderatian, rank irig, as (v 'State '.under :,the ■: AustrbrHungarjan reigning housei',' transforming. the thial.;ia.Warojiy'into ft tripartite empire; s?con"dly,'as an •independent. •Balkan Slavonic • confederation, headed :hy'S?rvla; At isthe'suppprtersbf the Matter. ■- propq6ition~th«. P«n-SorV. or Graater Servia movement—who r are'now flndlng , . tijeniwlves insid.? ; thei'A?rani gaols. ;;.^■,;..: ' The tripartite Empire §ch«me Jβ,. it thQ ultimate ftinhi tion of 6oma of tho authors, of the, snnexatloj):: of ■.BDsnla-'liand- -..Bersfegpvina, They'would- create :'a new ''autonomous State, , comprising' Croatia 'proper,;Sjavonla, Dalmatian, ■Bosnia; 'and' with the idea UUtljrjaMy inflluding■ the , ivhole. of. the' Servian ra.qe; ; .'!.ButVth^.'Gernian: , ! elenient v jn'-'Auetrja-I Hnngary, ; and.'prohahly thO' Magyar ■element ..'Alpo/is to -look with wspioion'onany aocession.of ■strength to the Slav factor., even if it should.njake Austria-Hungary the leading -SlfLvptiio-' ppwep-w, Sauth-Haiitern Bwpe. . Qn th.o other hand, , ; an/ indepondent Slavonic wn*fedejatioh, Ainder';the:head3hip of:Servia, would thipw' a formidable,,' and' perhaps ■■impregnable,, barrier between'Aiisjrlarljungary arid the Near JSast.'- Henoc'thy' vigour :wlth which the Hungarian'.' noliw ■rw .-,hunting;down : the ■ Pan-B?rh-jsta./Tiie: Austrian; Prenijer,-Baron Bienerth, laaspeooh-'laf't'inonth, remarked thaj; "Servia and-Montenegro ■ hftd long ohtrished & fanatical hope that;the'oocupfttion/ of Bosnia and, Heris&.' gpyina. wpuld.cease. This, catch word had been :prppagjtedJrom : ;SerYia a? r incans of creating unrm.au .Bosnia-and Herzegovina. dnd,.thQro< f6r«, was qpmpelled to annex the. terr|tpries.:ito:-;ortwite neutralise' the ■ PanSerb'aglwioh." , .'"' .r' :■ ■■■ ■:•■ • ■■:■. '- : :.:■The'separatisf'Tnovement has.manifested'.it* ,s.6lf:in;Cipatia,';off and.onj- for half- a. century,