CROAT SPIRIT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 153, 31 May 1941, Page 7

CROAT SPIRIT.

CONTINUING STRUGGLE. (British Official Wireless.) : (lice. 11.-JO a.in.) RUGBY, May 30. j The following Note has been pre- ! sented by the Yugoslav Minister in j London: — I •‘During the solemnities which took i place in Rome on May IS and 19 it; was proclaimed that the ‘independent I Croatian State’ is transformed into a, hereditary monarchy. At this occasion, , also, agreements were signed ceding I to Italy large parts of the territory j belonging to Yugoslavia. Other agree-' | ments have been reached which repre-j sent a camouflaged annexation to Italy) of the, whole of the territory newly created as the ‘Croatian’ State. , “All these decisions have been made ! ] by the same persons, who assumed! ! power as usurpers with the assistance . of the enemy’s troops occupying I ( Croatia, without any consultation and | participation of the people whose vital ’ j rights and interests are, bv these do- ! | cisions, heavily affected. The Royal , Yugoslavian Government protests j against this new attack on the unity of the territory of the Yugoslav State, ’ as well as, also, against the dismeni-1 j bernient of the Croatian people, who continue their struggle through their jj legitimate representatives in the Royal j Yugoslav Government to maintain s flieir unity and the integrity of |' s Croatian territory within the King- I dotn of Yugoslavia, recognising only King Peter 11 as their legitimate i i