AUSTRIA AND THE SLAVS.
An address was recently presented to oil members of Parliament ip Britain by the president of the Southern Slav Committee, Dr. Trumbitch, on behalf of the Committee and the Southern Slav people of Austria-Hungary, which it represents, calling attention to the conditions under which the Austrian Parliament had met. The address gays: "Throughout the whole course of the war the Slav nationalities of Austria / have been subjected to terrorism and persecution. Two hundred thousand Austrian Southern Slavs have been lm» prisoned, interned, or driven into exile. The most notable and distinguished mei» among them have, under an iniquitouH enactment, been held as hostages by tho army corps commanders, and made answerable with their lives for any acts of unknown persons against the safety of the military forces. In this way, and on the bare suspicion of desiring the unioh > of the Southern Slav Austrian peoples with Serbia, members of Parliament, and of tho Provincial Diets, lawyers, professors, teachers, business men, priestn, writers, artists and students havo been thrown into prison. Southern Slav landowners have seen their property confiscated and given forcibly to Germans and Magyars. Under the state of singe proclaimed on the outbreak of war, W Roman Catholic priests were imprisoned up to April, 1015, and 07 Orthodox priests were hanged in the diocese of Sarajevo". Subsequently 150,000 civilians from Servia and Montenegro were carried into slavery. . . . Many of the vacant setits on the Slav benches at Vienna recall the treatment of Southern Slav and Czech deputies who are serving long terms of imprisonment." ( The address, in conclusion, expresses a conviction that, "by victory of the Allies, Austria-Hungary will be called to account for her crimes, and that her oppressed Slav peoples will And, In independence and union with their kindred, some solace for the persecution they have suffered at her hands,"
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1917, Page 5
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307AUSTRIA AND THE SLAVS. Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1917, Page 5
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