MANY DEMONSTRATIONS
CLASHES IN STREETS
SOLDIERS LAY DOWN ARMS
(Received March 26, 2.20 p.m.)
LONDON, March 25.
The brave words of the pamphlet issued by Belgrade patriots find an echo iiv many hearts throughout the country, but the cities are filled with gendarmes with orders to squash demonstrations. The newspapers and radio speak with the voice of Berlin. Protest meetings in Cetinje and Podgorica led to clashes with the police and many arrests and casualties.
M. Kontic, who is the leader of the Yugoslav Ex-Servicemen's Association, in a speech at Cetinje, said: "The people of Yugoslavia are against any pact with Germany." Crowds shouted "Down with the Government," •, and then marched to the local military headquarters and demanded that the troops should take up their arms and use them in the interests of the people. Similar demonstrations occurred throughout Montenegro.
Students from Belgrade secondary schools paraded, shouting "Down with the 'fifth column'! Long live democracy!" Police riot squads arrested several hundred. Feeling among the troops in some provincial centres rah so high that they laid down their arms rather than serve the Government of capitulation.
Prince Paul and Hitler exchanged felicitations by telegram.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 72, 26 March 1941, Page 10
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193MANY DEMONSTRATIONS Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 72, 26 March 1941, Page 10
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