A STRONG HAND.
NEW REGIME IN JUGO-SLAVIA
CROATS DISILLUSIONED,
United Press Association —By Electric Telegraun Copyright.) ("Times’’ Cables.)
LONDON. Jan. 9.
Dr . Matchek, the Croats’ leader, has disavowed the new Serbian Cabinet, says the Belgrade correspondent of. “The Times.” The new regime immediately ’Showed a s/trong hand, and every Zagreb newspaper attempting to publish the disavowal was confiscated. The new Government has appointed’ a new .governor, selecting an officer who suppressed the local council in Decern,ber. The police have been ordered to dissolve the peasant Democratic coalition.
Telegraphic and telephonic communication between Zagreb and Belgrade is at present interrupted, say® a, Zagreb message. There is no new® of the situation in Belgrade. The Croats are completely disillusioned ,and now believe, the real object of King Alexander’s dictatorship is to' crush their aspirations, says a Vienna cable. The police have confiscated Zagreb newspapers containing a report of an interview with Generali Matchek, leader of the Croatian Peasant Rarty, in which he declared the new Government was not what the Croats wanted.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 January 1929, Page 5
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