The Chronicle LEVIN. THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1917. SUBWAY FOR KAWIU ROAD.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 8 March 1917, Page 2

The Chronicle LEVIN. THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1917. SUBWAY FOR KAWIU ROAD.

Tha chief difficulty ahead 'in the iii .tru,' of obtaining a subway passage

«t the point where tlie railway crosses Kawiu road is tlie attitude of the j?iii,hvay 'Department in regard to avoidable expenditures. None the I -p. ;afe L y cf travellers on the -railw;.y and diminished risk of injury to st ck would be sure .result of tlie substitution of a subway for the 1 n-ci crossing that is in use at Kawiu road to-day. Provided the two local bodies of Levin and district agree upon an equitable joint attitude in r-jrud to cost they may find the Jlaihviay Department better inclined towards them' than it was when a I <;vin deputation .approached it on the subject some few years ago. As a preliminary step towards ia present day deputation, the Horowlienua {"aunty Council is to be approached at its meeting next Saturday by representatives of Levin Borough Council, with a request for the County Council's co-op in a deputation to the Minister for Railways or other representative of the Department, as may be decided upon. Tlie proposed subway would be of so great a material banefit to stockowuers beyond Levin who use the Kawiu iroaft that there should be a whole-hearted recognition by the County Council of the advisiihkncss of backing up the borough in its efforts, and doubtless the representatives of iWirokino riding wall be favorably disposed towards the tentative proposal that the local bodies contribute two-third of V the co6t betveon them iin equal proporti las, the- Railway Department to le asked to find the remainder.

THIS JUGOSLAVS. •From London there has been sent t,> The Chronicle a copy of "The Southern Slav Bulletin." The pots paper As especially interesting Ifro'ii the if act; that many Croats are in >..>W Zealand at present, and disaffected towards Austria, which holds them in alleged allegiance. From the Bulletin we clip the following interesting summary of the ease of the Jugoslav people:'—Tire Jugoslavs (the southern Slavs), i.e. the Serbs', 'Croats and Slovenes, are by blood, language, and tradition, no lees than by economic and political conditions, one homogeneous nation, with identical aims in their national life. They form the compact population of the kingdoms of Serbia .and Montenegro (population 5,000,000), of the Jugoslav provinces in AustriaHungary (Jugoslav pop. 8,000,000) and of the Italian district west of Gorica (-10,000 Jugoslavs), whereas 1,503.000 Jugoslavs live as emigrants in o vet sea' countries. I" AustriaHungary the Jugoslavs are subordinated by twy domnant State organizations, viz., the Germans and the Maygars. The territory is broken -up into ten provinces; they are politically oppressed, socially persecuted, and in every way hampered and menaced in their intellectual and national development. There are 2,100,000 Jugoslavs under German administration in Vienna, Of these 410,000 live in Southern Styria, 120,000 in Southern C'arinthia, 490,000 in Carniola. 155,OCO in Goricia-Gradiska. 70,000 in Trieste, 225,000 in 'Istria, and 610,000 in Dalmatia. Under the Maygar domination there 3,100,000 Jugoslavs, viz., 3,300,000 in , Croatia-Slavonia, ■ and 900,000 in Southern and South I Western Hungary (in the Medjumurjc I along the Styrian frontier, in the Barj an.ja, Backa and Banat). A .joint ! Austro-Hungarian -administration con- | trols the 1,900,000 Jugoslavs living in I Bosnia-Hezcegovina. Finally there ! arc 40,000 Jugoslavs under Italian rule. The .Jugoslavs have always desired to form an independent State. : and to lead their own national life free ! from all foreign domination, whether | Turkish, Venetian, or Austro^Hungar-

ian. Both in Serbia and Montengro they have already achieved and developed their freedom, but all attempts to obtain even partial unilioaition and the conditions for national development ; within the borders of Austro-Hungar.v ; have invariably proved unsuccessful, i A 1 unredeemed Jugoslavs look to the j successful 'issue, of the present war I waged by Serbia and Montenegro and I their mighty allies to accomplish their complete deliverance from foreign domination. And they hope that in accordiance with the principle of nationality they will bo permitted to realize their ideals of union with their i:ee brothers in the two kingdoms, and of the unification of the national territory in one single independent State.