YUGO-SLAV SPLIT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 197, 3 August 1928, Page 5

YUGO-SLAV SPLIT

SUBJECT RACES DEMAND INDEPENDENCE RIVAL PARLIAMENT ESTABLISHED DANGER OF CIVIL WAR [United Preu Allocation—By Cable— CopyrtgsM lAuetraiUn Preu Aun.-Unlted Service.i (Received 3, 9,15 a.m.) Belgrade, Aug. 2. While Parliament is sitting here under the new Premier, M. Koroshetz, a rival Parliament, composed of ninety Croat and- other deputies, met at Zagreb, and virtually declared war against Belgrade. They adopted a resolution that its measures in future will not be observed outside Serbia proper, EXCITED CROWDS PARADE STREETS (Auitrxllxn and N.Z. Preu Aten.) London, Aug. S. The subject races of \ugo-Slavia. in the centre of Europe’s political powder magazine, are demanding independence. and a rival Parliament has been established.

The Yugo-Slav national Parliament, or the blood-stained Skupshtina, representing the medley races of Croats, Slovenes and Serbs, from Croatia, Slavonia. Albania, Austria, Bosnia, Herzegovina and Southern Hungarv in addition to Montenegro and Serbia, met at Belgrade for the first time since two Croatian deputies were shot dead and others wounded on July 20th. The Croats refused to attend the Skupshtina and held their own Parliament or Sabor, in Zagreb, their old capital, while the Serb Agrarians were also absent in sympatny with the Croats. Thus the Opposition benches were empty. While excited crowds paraded Zagreb’s beflagged streets, calling for autonomy and waving banners inscribed ‘ Zagreb’s Croatian Serbs cannot be governed from Belgrade.” their representatives in the Sabor carried a demand for the complete separation of Coatia from Yuyo-Slavia. They resolved to pay no more taxes and called on other provinces to join the struggle against Serb supremacy. Furthermore, they declared that the kingdoms of Croatia and Montenegro in merging themselves with the kingdom of Serbs, Creates and Slovenes, did not reckon to lose their national individuality, but the* Serbia had abused the constitution In order to establish a hegemony over the

rskt. The half empty Skupshtina, sitting in an atmosphere of deep depression, received the Zagreb's manifesto with indignation. AU the Serbs bitterly resented the manifesto’s reference to Montenegro and the Coates' call to the other provinces. The ‘‘Daily Mail's” Vienna correspondent says that the Sabor presided over by Prebichevitch, decided to sees alteration of the South Slavian regime by every legal means, declaring: “The crimes of July 20, which were an organised attempt to destroy the Opposition, make our attendance at the Skupshtina impossible. Therefore, «« recommend the non-payment of taxes, and government of Croatia from Belgrade is no longer recognised. REVOLUTION FEARED. This, in the opinion of some correspondents, means a revolution in South Slavia. It is understood to be evident that the Yugo-Slavian Prime Minister, Father Korosek, a Slovene cleric, who was formerly an autonomist and opposed a united South Slavia, cannot permanently control the non-Catholic members of his Cabinet. - Eighty-three Peasant Democrat deputies three Slovenes and two Montenegrins attended the Zagreb gathering under the red, white and blue Croatian flag. It is understood their manifesto has the approval of M. Raditch, who is expected to preside over the Sabor as soon as he is well enough. A Zazreb official bulletin states that the peasants’ coalition and the Belgrade Government, are anxious to avoid civil war and have ordered military leaders to show the greatest forbearance.