JUGO-SLAV AFFAIRS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1929, Page 5

JUGO-SLAV AFFAIRS

CROATS’ LEADER DENOUNCES NEW REGIME. (United Press Association—By Electri< Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, January 11. With the exception of Governmentinspired or approved messages, there is no news either from Belgrade or Zagreb. , The Matchek interview, which was V -published in Budapest, denounces as sheer lies a statement that the new regime was welcomed in ( matin. “ We know the dictatorship will not he short-lived ; on the contrary, it will last its purpose, namely, to attain the Serbisation of Croats, which other means failed to attain. We demanded satisfaction for the murder of Raditch; instead, we got a dictatorship which will result in the annihilation c'f the Croat spirit.” PRIME MINISTER’S DECLARATION. BELGRADE, January 11. The country will return to the Par-

liamentary regime the moment our Y particular job is finished, declared / General Zivkovitch, the new lYime f Minister of Jugo-Slavia, in an inter, view with the “Daily Express” special representative, who asked whether the present regime was permanent absolutism, a military dictatorship, or Fascism. General Zivkovitch replied: Net tier. The King lias done only what the Croats and Serb alike have been demanding. All said: ‘ Let the King act. Only the King can save the situation. Well the King acted, and selected men devoted to the State; men with clean political records, to form a neutral retforniing government.”

CROAT LEADER’S STATE MEN 1.. BERLIN. January 11. The ‘iTageblatt’s ” Belgrade cortelegraphs that Ministers confirm that the present situation will last several years. 'Die Government is working out a programme, and there is „„ question of reorganising Jugoslavia on a federal basis, and certain- ] „ ot , restoration of a Creation State.