THE JUGO-SLAV PROBLEM

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 217, 7 June 1919, Page 8

THE JUGO-SLAV PROBLEM

, Sir,—That Ihe Jugo-Slavs. have been "a hard-working, industrious population" tho wasted fields of tho north will ivagically testify for .at least fifty years to come; but industry that is purely eliniinalive of a valuable national asset cannot, be set down as a national merit in those practising it. .It is fell: (hat men who truly lovo.their land could not repose in comfort behind a.legal technicality while that land is being cruelly destroyed as was Serbia. .Australia was able to send her .lugo-Slavs to Salonika.! I''uvther, more than 50 .lugo-Slavs went to the front from Xew Zealand. It is inferred that the others could have done tho same had they sincerely wished to serve. • It is not urged that Ihe Jugoslavs arc"dangerous element" in any military or militant sense. To most people it, iiiny even ijppear comic that a .Koval Commission was ever asked to consider seriously such a question. Figure it: Tho danger of 21100. aliens, 12,000 miles from any base, over-running, and subjugating' Now Zealand with a duck gun or two!

I hasten In rcinovo these irj'olovaneies boforo tlu'y arc seized upon io oliscurd (ho fourteen (Mints raised in my lettor. Meanwhile, let it lw noted that in (ho only question directly answered tlu! dovision is against the claim made by tho .lugo-Slavs in their farewell letlev to their Auckland cominitlce. 1 am purfiiiadi'd the other' thirteen will also go against tliem.—L am, etc.. BLACK WATCH.