Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-03
WHY THE JUGO SLAV IDEA IS OPPOSED
 BY AUSTRIA
A Most Timely Article on Slav Unrest in Austria, Written for Review by Elm minent Serbian Patriot While in Bisbee on War Mission.

For two years we have heard
 lumors ana reports or a break in the
 A ustrlan end 0. the Teutonic alliance. ! but they never came true. Austria kept on, woObly at times, but stlll she mas kept on, and is still to be reck. Cned with as great force, as Italy
 well knows. But now these rumors UI Austrian weaKness have been re- plved, and they are ten fold greater in voiume than ever before. Ana what IS more they come to the accompani- ment of the German guns on the west ern front ana while Germany is claim Ing victories over the allies. The Jugo-Slav, long suffering and resigned to slavery, is straining at his bonds. his dull eye sees at last the one chance for a great Serb nation only In alned victory. He has become a menace. He forms a no small part of Austria and he mas furnished nun dreds Of thousands for cannon fodder. He comprises all those races Of that mixed assemblage of states known as Austrla-Hungary, except the Austrian and the Magyar. He is the slav branch O. the dual monarchy. He is the Balkan ravished long ago by the Haps- burgs to the Austrian uses and means.
 when J. B. Michakjevic, travelling representative of the Slavic council al N Nashington, was in Bisbee few days ago, The Review requested this emin- Tt Serbian patriot to write something about the Jugo-Slav peoples and their trend of thought and their misfor- tunes, hopes and fears of today. He uid so, and the importance O; his article has been intensified by events since it was written. The Bohemians are in open revolt and the other Jugo- Slav peoples within Austria are fo- menting with rebellion against a rule that can only bring perpetual slavery ana shame to their blood. The Michal- Jevic article follows:
 'Austria-Hungary has vainly pitted all her strength against the Juso-Slav idea. By every means in her power she has tried to compromise to de frame and to crush it. To this end she established the Dualisana in the monarchy, parceled out the Jugo-Slavs III oetacned provinces, mulilated the kingdom of Croatia, and sought to GeImanize the Slovenes and to magyerize the Croats. To this end Bosnia Herzegovina was first occupied and finally annexed. To this end in- numerable political charges were brought agalnst the Jugo-Slavs and they were subjected to endless perse- cutions. To this end she encouraged mutual jealousies and conflicts be- tween the Slav state in the Balkans and finally, by threatening the sover- eign rights of Serbia, Austria un- chained the present war.
 For, in her subservience to Ger man imperialism, Austria thought by this war to crush Jugo-Slavdom, the great obstacle in the path of. Germany and herself towards the east. She provoked the war because she be- neyed that the Jugo-Slav question could no longef hc solved by partial or palliative mey slIres, and she hung herself upon Serbia to absorb her. and with her the Jugo-Slavs. But when Austria, as Germany's vassal state and pioneer, encountered the national resistance of Serbia, the pow CTS ol the triple entente rose on De- half Cf the sualler nation. In tnls way the Jugo Siav question became European problem, and 1t is of para mount importance to world that IL should be fully and finally solved; only a complete solution will insure the results for which the triple en- tente has gone to war.
 Our nation, which has suffered 50 cruelty. and been so often deceived, is determined that its fate snail pc decided once and for all, even al the uttermost cost. Our unnatural exist ence and constant sufferings must De ended: we have a right to be some thing more than a subject for in- trigues and a pawn on the chess board of foreign interest. Neither VIII we continue to bring slaughter ana rain upon each other at the DlddlnS of strangers.
 ''The Jugo-Slav peoples known m history as Serbs. Greats, and Slovenes, are all members of one and the sane nation, with all the necessary condl- tions for the formation of an nde- pendent national state, and they nave every ethnographical and historlcal right to the territory they inhabit' m which they form a compact popuia- tion. National Territory of the Jugo-SlaVs
 The national territory of the Jugo- Slavs comprise:
 (a) Serbia and Montenegro.
 (b) Bosnia-Hereegovina.
 (cl Dablmatia and the Dalmatlan archipelago. , o,.,
 (r) Croatia and Slavonia with hleha (Finme) and the MedjunrurJe.
 (e) The country of the DraVa III South Hungary, and the district iorh- erly called the Serbian NoJFodila (Backa and BanaD.
 CD Istria, the Istrian Isles ana Trieste.
 (g) Carolina and Georgia.
 (h) Southern Carinthia, southern Styria. and the adjoining territory Ill Southeastern Hungary.
 "In all these territories the Juso- Slavs constitute compact with nelsn- boring races, and partly the artlhcial result of hostile policy. and cahnoI seriously affect the national character Of the country,