ANNIHILATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 9

ANNIHILATION.

THE CROAT FEARS. New Regime For Subject u~ Of Nation. PEEMIER INTERVIEWED. (.Australian and N.Z. Tress ASbOcialiu; BKIA.IIAni:. January" 11. General Zivkovitch, ihc uew Pri: Minister ot' utro>l;i\ia. jjavt , an nr.c view to the representative of if. "Daily Kxpre.-s. v He said: "The country will return s a parliamentary regime the moment in. particular job is finished." When asked whether the presd. regime was a permanent military die'.aion-hip. or Fascism, 1. replied: '"It i< neither. The King h.i dime only what Croats and Serbs alii* have been demanding. They all sa.. 'Lot- the Kinjr ait. only the King ca save the situation."

"Well, the Kin- has acted. He ha selected nu'ii devoted to the State, wit. clean political records, to form a neutr.i ret <>r mi n>l (ioverninent."'

Dr. Matchek, leader of the Croat Peasant party, in an interview pu"nlished in a Budapest new-paper. «h nouiiees as sheer lies the statement tha; the new reuiine i> welcomed in Croati ,

"We know well that the dictatorship wiinot he short-lived. On the contrary, i' will la>t. It- purpo>e is to attain tinSerbisation of the Croats, which other means failed to attain.

"We demanded satisfaction for thmurder of M. Raditch in Parliament Ism June. Instead, we have got a dictatorship, which will result in the annihilation of the Croat spirit.**

The Berlin "TajjeblattV Belgrade correspondent, in a message to his paper, says the Ministers confirm the statement that the present situation will last for several years. The Government is working out a programme. There is no question of reorganising Yugoslavia on a federal basis, and certainly there will he no restoration of a Croatian State.

With the exception of messages inspired or approved by the Ciovernment, no news has been received to-day in London cither from Belgrade or Zagreb.