RIGID CENSORSHIP

Grey River Argus, 14 January 1929, Page 5

RIGID CENSORSHIP

THROUGHOUT CROATIA. •A Trade Unions Dissolved. (Received January 13, at 8 p.m.) LONDON, January 12 Only official news continues to be permitted IrojUi Belgrade. It is anMount? id in accordance with the new law that all political bodies are required. within five day>s to deposit cop.es of articles of association, together with names and professions of officers thereof. An amnesty has been proclaimed under which the King pardOfns certain categories of military Prisoner?. The King and the new Prins3 Minister continue to receiv/j numerous telegrams of congratulation. It is learned from othpr sources that Zivkt\vitch has decreed the immediate’ dissolution of numerous trade unions. Political parties are busy n>drafting their constitutions in the hope of escaping suppression, but it appears "Certain that the Croat Peasant Party will be banned under the law prohibiting political agitation. Even UTephone conversations and private telegrams are being censored throughout* Foreign newspapers) containing articles unfavourably to; the Dictatorship are confiscated. It is reported from Belgrade that the Government has ordered wholesale dismissals from the staffs of thi Ministries. The policH force is being militar-ged and Parliament Buildings converted into a barracks. The Go/vornnM mt( fi[s admittedly planning a division into fifteen departments. GERMAN PRESS COMMENT. * BERLIN, Jafluary 12. Alexander is uot taking an alternative risk; for the Crown says the Vussiche 2-utung. Everything in Jugo-Slavia except the army and th-e King seem to be tottering. ThMse two forces represent the links binding the Slovenes and Croats the army, b cause it is the only power with which Italy can lie confronted, and the King because he commands the respect of the Croatian Peasants. Therefor, it is logical that these fojrees are at the helm. in. a movement when the nation is threatened with tri3 collapse. <