RIGID CENSORSHIP

Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1929, Page 6

RIGID CENSORSHIP

Throughout Croatia. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, Jan. 12. ' Only official news continues to bo permitted from Belgrade. It is announced in aeordauce with the new law that all political bodies are required within five days to deposit copies of articles of association, together with names and professions of officers thereof. An amnesty lias been proclaimed under which the King pardons certain categories of military prisoners. The King and the- new Prime Minister continues to receive numerous telegrams of congratulations. It is learned from other sources that Zivkevitc-li has decreed the immediate dissolution of numerous trade unions. Political parties are busy re-drafting their constitutions in the hope of escaping suppression, but it appears certain that the Croat Peasant Party will he banned under the law prohibiting political agitation. Even telephone conversations and private telegrams are being censored throughout :. Croatia. Foreign newspapers containing articles unfavourable to the Dictatorship, are confiscated. It is reported from Belgrade that the Government lias ordered wholesale dismissals from the staffs of the Ministries The police force is being militarised and Parliament Buildings converted into, a barracks. The Government is admittedly planning a division into fifteen departments. GERMAN PRESS COMMENT. BERLIN. Jan. 12. Alexander is not taking any alternative risk for the Crown says, the, Yossiclie Zeitung. Everything in. Jugoslavia except the army and the King seem to he tottering Those two forces represent the links binding the Slovenes and Croats—the army, because it is the only power with which Italy can be confronted, and the King because he commands the respect of the Croatian Peasants. Therefore, it is logical and these forces are at the helm in a movement when the nation is threatened with the collapse.