YUGOSLAVIA AND ROME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19962, 2 June 1928, Page 11

YUGOSLAVIA AND ROME

DANGEROUS FRICTION. UNRULY STREET MOBS. COUNTER-DEMONSTRATIONS ITALIANS DEMAND WAR. OLD ENMITY REVIVED. i Australian and N.Z. Press Association. (Received June I, 7.45 p.m.) LONDON, June 1. The anti-Italian demonstrations in Yugoslavia threaten to produce a dangerous situation, says the Daily Express. A picture of the Italian Prime Minister, Signor Mussolini, was burned in the streets of Belgrade. Gendarmes with fixed bayonets charged the barricades which had been raised by the rioters. a Cavalry had to charge the crowds at Sarajevo, th 3 sceno of the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand, in July, 1914, which precipitated the Great War. Italians at Zara, the seaport town in Dalmatia which was ceded to Italy under the Treaty of Rapallo in 1920, held a counter-demonstration and snouted for war with Yugoslavia. Italy and Yugoslavia have been bad friends since the post-war settlement which allocated Fiumo to Italy. The latter Power's treaty with Albania is regarded as a device to control Yugoslavia's neighbour. The outbreaks this week were really due to the attempts of the Yugoslavian Government to secure a better understanding with Italy and to obtain Parliamentary sanction to the Nettuno Conventions, signed in 1925, dealing with minor questions relating to Finnic and the treatment of Italians living in Yugoslavia. This was enough to send Yugoslavia into a ferment. The anti-Italian feeling is led by Stefan Iladitch, who is a Croatian demagogue and a firebrand. He has been everything from a Bolshevik to a fervid Royalist.