YUGOSLAVS BAN MICKEY MOUSE

Southland Times, Issue 23376, 7 December 1937, Page 7

YUGOSLAVS BAN MICKEY MOUSE

Comic Strip About Boy King

ARMY LEADERS’ PLOT RECALLED

BRITISH CORRESPONDENT TO BE EXPELLED

(United Press Assn. —Telegraph Copyright) (Received December 6, 8.15 p.m.) LONDON, December 6.

A Mickey Mouse comic strip figures in a remarkable story from Yugoslavia.

Mr H. Harrison, Reuter’s correspondent at Belgrade for eight years, has been ordered to leave by Wednesday because of allegedly tendentious reports—apparently a statement that the comic strip, which had been appearing in the newspapers, was indefinitely banned. The police state that the strip is banned for only two days, as it depicted a Puritanian revolt in which the boy King’s uncle was plotting to depose him.

The News Chronicle says wellinformed circles in Vienna declare that the strip so closely resembled actual conditions that it was considered dangerous. Nevertheless it was not the boy King Peter’s uncle, but General Tomtitch, who committed suicide on November 12, who was planning a military conspiracy aiming at the removal

of the Regent (Prince Paul) and the Prime Minister (Dr Milan Stoyadinovitch), and a military alliance with Germany. General Tomtitch had the support of five generals commanding military districts, who had prepared a manifesto declaring that they were establishing a military dictatorship to keep the country from Italian hands. When the plot was discovered a general and a junior officer were sent, with proofs of his treachery, to see General Tomtitch, who died as a result of the visit. It was given out that his death was a suicide. The general had been suspended. YUGOSLAV MISSION TO ROME PRIME MINISTER TO TALK WITH MUSSOLINI (Received December 6, 7.55 p.m.) ROME, December 6. The Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (Dr Milan Stoyadinovitch) has arrived on an official visit to Signor Mussolini to discuss the European situation, Balkan problems and trade relations.