ARMED REBELLION

Hokitika Guardian, 25 October 1932, Page 3

ARMED REBELLION

FIREARMS LANDED ON COAST ALLEGATIONS OF ITALIAN AID. BELGRADE, October 10. Extraprdiiury , niajiary and naval measures are being taken by tne JugoSiavian Government, aif ilie lesulc of reports from Croatia a nd Danunatia of preparation for an armed, rebellion, ,or whicii, it is alleged, an Indian submarine landed munitions. lLnes,. revolvers and bombs, with w.-i.ii me peasants of Croatia have' armed themselves, were landed from the aceo.dmg to reports received ly the Government, on the rugged odlliLitic cc.i,-t between the sum 1 harbour.! of Carlopugo and Jabionatz. Tne Assistant Minist r of. the Interior (M. D. Markovitch) has taken charge of -operations in Northern Dalmatia, where he is searching the mountains and confilscating a,ms, with the aid of 1000 gendarmes, mountain batteries and machine-gun sections. The Government has ordered t the s’ea-gomg squadron carefully to patrol Fiumc, on the Italian border, to Spalato. .

The ringleaders of the rising arc alleged to be former members of Parliament and of .the. Radiich Party. These made good their escape, but 120 jth l r supposed rebels were arrested in Northern Dalmatia. The l-ebels destroyed four police posts and captured- five gerd-arnies, whom they are holding as hostages. M Pernan, tire Croat lender, who was wounded in the Skupshtina (Lower House) when M. Raditch was assassinated, has been arrested, with eight othrr.s, ’at Zagreb

Croatia, before the war, was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. After the war, along with Slovenia, Dalmatia, Montenegro and Bosnia, it was ioned to Sir via to form the new ki.nglom of Jugo-Slavia. It has an area •f 37,110 square miles and a population of 2,600,000. Zagreb (Agrani). its principal town, has a population of 185,000. .. , The important port cf Fiume, formerly an Austro-Hungarian’ naval Rise, ;vas, after, several years of dispute, dlotted-to Italy in January, 1924. Though Jugo-Slavia has, by arra.ngv nent with Greece, tn outlet at Salolika, its only seaboard is- on the Adriatic, where its small sea-going qnadron of twelve torpedo-boats, six nine-layers, four submarines and min•r craft is employed, with a base at Cattaro.

The gerdarmerie consists of 19,848 officen und men. The peace strength of the active army is 6741 officeis and 184,448 nWn. The army air force has ’.0,810 in all ranks a n d 568 aeroplanes.