YUGOSLAV FORCES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21961, 4 March 1946, Page 3

YUGOSLAV FORCES

HEAVY .INCREASE VENEZIA GIULIA ZONE NO SIGN OF DISORDER LONDON. March 1. The Yugoslav forces in the eastern half of the disputed Venezia Giulia region have been heavily augmented, states a report from the United States Army and Navy commanders in the Mediterranean theatres. LieutenantGeneral Lee and Rear-Admiral Jules James after an inspection of the area. The Associated Press correspondent in Rome says that the British, American. Russian and French commission is due at Trieste soon and will make recommendations for fixing the permanent boundary. The American commanders’ report expressed satisfaction with the results of the British-American occupation of the western half of Venezia Giulia. “We saw nothing to justify the lamented report of strife and disorder, despite the great political interest that is only to be expected on the eve of a settlement of so important a territorial question.” he added.

.thenians and Ukrainian refugees are consequently, with all .their might, resisting the attempts to transfer them east of the Curzcn Line and refusing to submit to .the demands made, often at the point of the gun, that they should return to the countries from which they came.” A message from Belgrade says that the Prime Minister of Croatia. M. Vladimir Bakavitch, announced from Zagreb that a number of Roman Catholic priests will shortly be called before the courts and charged with crimes against the people and responsibility for horrors in concentration camps. ' M. Bakavitch said the roots of the pro-German terrorist movement, which was active after the end of the war, were stronger in the ranks of the Roman Catholic clergy than was supposed.