JUGO-SLAVIA

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 92, 12 January 1929, Page 9

JUGO-SLAVIA

WILL PRESENT REGIME BE SHORT-LIVED? RETURN TO PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT FORECASTED BY NEW PREMIER The new Prime Minister of Jugo-Slavia declares that the country will return to Palliainentary regime when. the Government’s particular job is finished. The Croatian leader, however, states that the dictatorship will not be short-lived. (United Press Association.— By Electric Telesraph .—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) (Rec. January li, 5.5 P- m -)

Belgrade, January 11. “The country will return to Parliamentary regime the moment our particular job is finished,” dechired General Zivkovitch, the new Prime Minister of Jugo-Slavia, in an interview with a “Daily Express” special correspondent, who asked-.whether the piesent regime was permanent absolutism, military dictatorship, or fascism. General Zivkovitch replied: Neither. The King has done only what the Croats and Serbs alike have been demanding.’ All said: ‘Let the King act. Only the King can save the situation.’ Well, the King has acted and selected men devoted to the State—men with clean political records —to form a neutral reforming government.”

INTERVIEW WITH MATCHEK

(Rec. January 11, 7.55 p.m.)

London, January 11.

With the exception of Governmentinspired or approved messages, there is no news either from Belgrade or Zagreb. Dr. Matchck, leader oE the Croatian Peasant Party, in an interview which is published in Budapest, denounces as sheer lies the statements that the new regime was welcomed in Croatia. “We know that the dictatorship will not be short-lived. On the contrary, it will last its purpose, namely, to attain the Serbisation of Croats, which other means failed *to attain. We demanded satisfaction for the murder of M. Raditch. Instead, we got a dictatorship, which will result in the annihilation of the Croat spirit.”

WILL LAST SEVERAL YEARS MINISTERS’ CONFIRMATION (Rec. January 11, 7.55 p.m.) Berlin, January 11. The “Tageblatt’s” Belgrade correspondent telegraphs that Ministers confirm that the present situation will last several years. The Government is working out its programme. There is no question of reorganising Jugo-Slavia on a federal basis, certainly not the restoration of the Croatian State.