YUGOSLAVIANS.
I am grateful to "Ex-Servico Englishman" for his very generous description of Yugoslav people in this Dominion and I trust it will go a long way towards removing the confusion and suffering wo experience by being wrongly included amongst the enemies of lirituin. Dur'mg the last war, ■because that part of x ngcelavia whence our people emigrated to 2Jew Zealand, was under AustroHungarian domination, Wα were classed as enemy subjects, but I venture to say that no section of the community was more loyal and obedient to the British flag. So it is in the present conflict, and I trust people will not unwittingly do us an injustice by regarding us aft enemy nationals merely because our dialect may appear similar to the [Italian. p. jr. PAVLIXOVICH.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 150, 26 June 1940, Page 6
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