JUGO-SLAV DICTATORSHIP NOT TRANSIENT CONDITION

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6809, 12 January 1929, Page 10

JUGO-SLAV DICTATORSHIP NOT TRANSIENT CONDITION

Government Digging In No Question of Reorganising Patchwork Kingdom i f ■■ " ■" Australian Press Assn.—United Service. Received Friday, 7.55 p.m. BERLIN, Jan. 11. Tageblatt’s Belgrade correspondent telegraphs that Ministers confirm the opinion that the present situation will last for several years. The Government is working out its programme, but there is no question of reorganising Jugo-Slavia on a federal basis and certainly not the restoration of a Croatian State. “ SHEER LIES ! ” CROATIA’S REPORTED DELIGHT AT NEW REGIME. Received Friday, 7.55 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 11. .With the exception of Government-inspired or approved messages, there is no news either from Belgrade or Zagreb. The Matchek interview, which was published in Budapest, denounces as sheer lies the statements that the new regime has been welcomed in Croatia. “We know this dictatorship will not be short-lived,” he declared. “On the contrary, it will outlast its purpose; namely, to attain the Scrbisation of the Croats, which other means have failed to attain. We demanded satisfaction for the murder of Raditch. Instead, we got a dictatorship, which will result in the annihilation of the Croat spirit.”