YUGOSLAVS IN TRIESTE
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS
(By Telegraph—Press Associaiion —Uooyipht.i Rec. 11 a.m. LONDON, May 25.
New Zealanders took hasty cover when machine-gun and rifle fire broke out in the streets of Trieste last Wednesday night, says the British United Press correspondent in Trieste. Allied officers raced about trying to find out' what was going on, but there was no battle. It was only the Yugoslav garrison starting to celebrate Marshal Tito's birthday, which is today.
They fired off thousands of rounds while red and white tracers streaked up and hundreds of flares lit up the sky. The Yugoslavs also lit bonfires on the hills and ridges around the city.
No incidents occurred between the Yugoslavs and the New Zealanders.
The Allied military authorities are considering a three-point plan from Marshal Tito for the solution of the Trieste dispute, says the "Daily Express" correspondent in Trieste. If the plan is adopted it will operate until the status of Trieste has been decided at the Peace Conference.
"The period of confusion in Trieste has ended," adds the correspondent. ■He says that Tito's plan provides, first, that the British and American forces shall occupy a defined part of Venezia Giulia, including Trieste, and have special control of the roads and railways leading from Trieste to Austria. The rest of this province, including the Istrian Peninsula and the port of Fiume, would be under Yugoslav military government. Secondly, Yugoslavia is to have a say in the Allied military government of Venezia Guilia. Thirdly, Yugoslav troops are to stay in the British and American sector, but to be under the command of the Supreme Allied Commander, Field-Marshal Alexander.
The correspondent points put that the boundary which Tito proposes is roughly that agreed to at the talks he had with Field-Marshal Alexander. If the Allies agree to Tito's plan it will leave him little more of the Istrian Peninsula than was contemplated then.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 123, 26 May 1945, Page 7
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