The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1918-09-06
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JUGoSLAV PROPAGANDA
DROPPED ON AUSTRIANS

DOmDlnS Austrian armies on the ltal-
ian front with propaganda. The
propaganda takes the form of a pub
lie letter to General BorOeFich, Aus
trian commando rim chief, written by
DR.. Ante Trumbich. president Of the
Jugoslav committee. General Boroe-
vich, it seems, is a Serbian by race,
and the letter of Dr. Tumbich re-
proaches him for his unfaithfUiness
/ to the people Of his own nationality.
Many thousands of copies OF the proc
/ Iamation were also scattered ever the
cities of Zagreb, in Croatia, and LubI.
jana. in Carniola Nor are the pres,
ent activities of the Jugoslavs con
fined to dropping printed matter from
airplanes. They are taking part in
actual fighting too.
There are now Jugoslav armies on
two of the battlefrOnts in Europe.
The larger force, a contingent OF
many thousands, is nassed on the
Serbian frontier near SaIoniki It's
leader is Alexander, the Serbian
crown prince, and it is operating in
connection with the Serbian troops.
This army has received large num-
Der of recruits from America. During
the months of May. June and July,
no less than $500 non-naturaIized
JugosIavs went as volunteers from
the United States to Camp Essex in
Canada, where the south Slavic sol
diers from all parts of North Ameri'
ca have been gathering. All of these
men have SaIoniki as their objective.
And since italy withdrew all preten,
sions to Jugoslav territory at the
congress of Rome last April, a small
er force of JugosIavs has been fight
ing with the Italians on the Piave.
These are by no means the first ap-
pearances of the western Jugoslavs
in the theatres of war AS long as
the fall of 1915, an army of $4,000 OF
them participated in the Inflated cam.
paign in Dobrudja. They cooperated
with the Roumanians in their efforts
to stand off the powerful thrusts of
Mackensen. Despite their heroic
resistance, they were driven back
with very considerable losses. Their
casualties at that time included 4.472
killed and $500 wounded. In recog-
milton Of their services the Russian
and Roumanian governments bestow-
ed on them as many as 2.347 medals
for bravery This really meant a
great deal, because the Russians and
ROumanian governments have not
been so liberal with their decorations
as the kaiser has been with his iron
crosses
After the Roumanian defeat. the
Jugoslav division split up into two
parts. Some CT them went north
through Russia to Archangel on the
White sea, and thence through the
Arctic and Atlantic oceans and the
Mediterranean sea back to Saloniki.
The others went through Siberia to
Vladivostok and from there via the
Pacific and Indian oceans and the
Suez canal to the Serbian front. Some
Of the experiences which they met
on these pilgrimages are as romantic
as those of the Czecho-Slovacs in
their hegira through the frozen Sibe-
rian country The significant thing
is that these remnants of the 10000
all came back. Undaunted by their
reverses they have journeyed back
to the homeland, prepared to fight
with fresh courage for free and uni,
ted Jugoslavia.
The political guidance of these
hitherto oppressed peoples is in the
hands of a central governing body
called the Jugoslav committee. IT'S
president is a Dalamatian. DR.. Ante
Trumbich, mayor of the city of Split,
and a former member of the Austrian
reichsrat. DR.. Ante Biankini, presi
dent of the Jugoslay national council
of America, is also a Defamation.
Other influential men now on this
committee are DR.. Fl. Hinkovich, a
former member of the Creation and
Hungarian parliaments, who is now
in this country; Dr. B. Vosnjak, edi
tor of the Veda, Jugoslavic review,
also in America, and the sculptor
Mestrovich, whom the great Rodin
leader as one of the greatest sculp-
tors in the world today
When Germany threw the whole
western world into tumult in the fate
full August OF 1914, these Jugoslav
leaders were scattered in different
countries OF Europe and the Americas.
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