New-York tribune., 1918-12-26
New State Declares 1t Will
Submit to Force Alone:
Then Only Temporarily
Future Trouble Feared
Serbian Asserts the Nation
Must Be Recognized or
Barred From Peace Farley
Ne,o York Tribune
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.-The Jugo-
Slav state will press its territor;a1
CLAIMS against those of Italy at the
peace conference, accepting no COM
promise, and will make it plain that
only force can impose upon the Jugo-
9laVs acceptance, for the moment, of
a decision contrary to their rights"
according to statement obtained to-
day from the headquarters of the
Jugo-Slav National Council here.
Austro- Hungarian Slavs have come
into power in the Balkans, a semi Of
nclal Serbian statement says, through
union with Serbia and Montenegro
and henceforth the Serbian legation at
Washington will be known as the lega-
ton of the Kingdom of the Serbs.
Croats and Slovenes.
Serbia and Montenegro must be ex-
Guided from the peace conference, it
was declared, unless the new Jugo- SIay
union had voice there.
The Jugo-SIav Statement
The Jugo-Slav announcement reads:
The dissolution of the Austrian
empire and the formation of new in
dependent states in its stead, of which
Czecho-Slovakia and Jugo-Slavia have
already assumed definite lines, has to
great extent given prominence to the
question, Who is to represent the for
ON mn 4 l@
The two formerly dominent races
of Austria Hungary, the Germans and
the Magyars, have been abandoned by
all their subject races and have shrunk
to negligible minority. 1t is out Of
the question to have them representing
all the different peoples formerly un-
der their sway. There is no doubt
that the Czecho-Slovaks, Jugo- -Slavs,
Poles and Rumanians must be given
an opportunity to bring their wishes
and claims directly and by themselves
before the peace conference.
"But there is some reluctance on the
part of the Allies. These new states,
excepting Czecho-S -Slovakia, have not
been recognized as yet by the Allies.
The recognition of Jugo-Slavia, which
was seriously contemplated, has until
now been delayed by Italy's violent
mentous events have taken place in
the development of the new Jugo- Slav
state that the Jugo-Slav representa-
tion at the peace confidence may be
considered as assured.
Jugo-Slavs Now United
From now on the Jugo-Slavs Of
former Austria Hungary do not appear
as single political organization. They
have proclaimed and organized COM
mon state with Serbia and Montenegro
two of the recognized Allies-and the
functions of this new state began the
momen- common ministry was
formed. The Vice Premier and the
Foreign Minister in this new ministry
are Jugo Slays from former Austria
Hungary. DR.. Trumbich the new For
elgn Minister, does not represent the
Jugo-Slavs from Austria Hungary only,
but Serbia as we'll. To ban the Jugo-
Slavs from the peace conference would
mean to ban Serbia and Montenegro
also. The unification of all the Jugo-
Slavs in one single state means, Of
course. the cessation of a separate
Serbian or Montenegrin state, the new
organism adopting the name State of
the Slovenes Croats and Serbs.
The delegation which will represent
the new state at the peace conference
will include Dr.. Trumbich, the new
Foreign Secretary. The delegation
will lay before the conference all Jupo-
Slav claims as single demand of the
former Serbian and Montenegrin states
and of the redeemed Jugo-Slavs.
Serbia Not Dominant
"Terrtorial questions in Macedonia
will be treated in the same spirit Of
unity and indivisibiiity as the Adriatic
question. There is no preponderance
of Serbia in the new state, all the parts
of Jugo-Slavia being put on an abso-
lutely equal footing without any ones
demand for an aegis or whatever kind
OF domination, and consequently there