NOTES SENT TO JUGOSLAVIA

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24987, 23 September 1946, Page 5

NOTES SENT TO JUGOSLAVIA

BRITAIN AND AMERICA REPLY TO CHARGES ALLEGED FAILURE TO CO-OPERATE Press^Assoclation—Copyright) A TSriti.i. w'? N ? I£ i N ’ Se Pt®>nber 20. ”ntish Note to Jugoslavia accuses the Jugoslav Government of failure to co-operate m fair and impartial administration of Zone A of Venezia been % R te ? inciden ts which had of ■ Note from Jugoslavia to Britain as providing proof a ?? 3 by Ju g°slavs. P e . Note_mentions the arrest of one Jugosiav officer and three soldiers at nffL. Ugo3l mL War Bo °ty Commission’s Trieste . because they shot and fatally wounded a civilian in spobreaks Pr °’ SlaV and pr °- Italian oiitOn six alleged instances of Allied military police being called to protect Jugoslav persons and pronertv th. British Note states that three wire lot reported until the Jugoslav Note was J bc X other three were partly false and wholly exaggerated ii^ e £«T ng ?° all egations that the Al--1 T. « d i not arrested the murderer of ?i, Ju F°? lav major, the Note says that failure of the investigations was due largely to the failure of the major s companion to inform the police of the crime for several days. Provocation Alleged «9? allegation that the police supFas^ lst mobs attacking two Jugoslav officers, the Note that vloI «“«y resisted and ed the police when the latter tried to escort them to safety, especially the officers ' driver had threattK? cr °wd with a hand-grenade. ♦ e . N °fe admits that civil police struck the officers, bat alleges gross provocation by the officers, against whose behaviour the Note vigorously protests. One of the officers carried prohibited weapons, and insulted the Allied General Officer Commanding. Consequently he was expelled from z.one A. The Note further accuses pro-Slav elements in Zone A of numerous obstructive and terroristic activities. It cites the arrest of a Jugoslav worker and evidence that he was implicated in the murder of a Jugoslav opposed to the present Government, ana the attempted kidnapping of another. The British Note concludes: “Such activities must provoke serious reactions from the local population. The Allied authorities continue to do their utmost to suppress such reactions to provocation, but the remedy is in the hands of the Jugoslav Government itself.” ' Note From U.S. From Washington, it is reported that the United States has sent to Jugoslavia a 1700-word Note, denouncing as false and exaggerated charges of improper treatment of Jugoslav soldiers in the British-American zone of Venezia Giulia. The Note, answering Marshal Broz’s complaints, also demands Jugoslavia’s co-operation in halting “obstructive, terroristic pro-Slav activities” in the zone. The American Note maintains that the arrest of Jugoslav officers and men during civil disturbances in Trieste was justified. * The American Note, while firm, is not couched in such strong terms as the recent ultimatum demanding the release of airmen shot down by a Jugoslav aeroplane.