The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-10
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 GERMAN PLOTS
 BY YJUCO-SLAVS

the duration or the iarlS conleltH'' and until peace is signed. These peo- pie, about S0,000 in number, dwell chiefly in Chile, their largest settie. ments being in Antofagasta and Punta Arenas. Among them are some of the richest men in South America. Their labors since the beginning of the war have immensely helped to propagate good feeling toward the allies and to checkmate the machinations of Ger man agents.
 Even before the war the Jugo-SlaVs of Chile felt keenly the German men known that the German spy system penetrated every country on the con- tinent. Because they had seen some thing of German operations at home in Europe. the Jugo- Slavs were more awake to the danger than many of the South Americans. Then came the out break of hostilities and the enrolling of all Europe in war. Early in 1915 Dr. Ljubo Leontic was summoned to Chile to organize the Jugo-Slavs so that they might work together as a unit. The so-called Jugo-Slav National Defense. to which nearly every Jugo- Slav in South America belongs, was the worthy result of his labors.
 Financed Work of Committee
 From the start the Jugo-Slav Ma, tional Defense has been abundantly able to help finance Jugo-Slav work both in Europe and America. It has met all the expenses of the Jugo-SIay committee of London. Among the members are fifty millionaires. who have each contributed about 5000 pesos every month for propa ganda purposes alone. Pasko Babu- riga. the president. is one of the lead ing business men of Chile He is en- gagged in saltpeter mining. and recently has been interested in a project to build great harbor at Antofagasta, for the export of Bolivian saltpeter, When this is finished saltpeter ships will be able to come into port and take their cargo from the wharves in stead of anchoring some distance out from the shore Nicholas Mihanoyic, an Argentine business man, owns 327 merchant steamships and vessels, ,F, ,,b ,,I, and BuenOs Aires and down the coast of Argentina. Vjekoslav MitroviC is another Chilean who has become wealthy in the saltpeter trade.
 The most important single under taking in South America started by the Jugo-Slav National Defense was a general boycott of German firms and German goods Knowing well the weak spots in the fabric of German industry in South America, the Jug0- Slav business men attacked these. Their efforts were helped by English. | French and American immigrants, and before long the boycott was system atic and general Before the end of year and a half German enterprise in the South American republics was | paralyzed
 Spy System Brought to Light The bringing to light of the German spy system was still greater service. So insidious was German espionage in the South American states that it had poisoned many political parties and in some cases important government officials. Without the ceaseless aid of the Jugo-Slav National Defense many of the German spies would have quietly continued their work One fac tor that enabled the Germans to op- crate more freely was the unsettled political status in number of the South American countries. Wherever they saw their opportunity the Ger mans played their favorite game of setting faction against faction and stir ring up discontent and strife. In a surprisingly large number of instances the German agents found their schemes blocked by the Jugo-Slavs.
 Jugo-Slav immigration to South America began in 1860. The political revolutions in Austria sent large num- bers into exile in that year, and again in 1878. Most of those who went to South America were from the coast and islands of Dalmatia Of the S00OO Southern Slavs in South America, 75,- 900 are Dalmatians. So many of them left their native villages that moro than one village was half depopulated. For example, in Punta Arenas there are 2,000 immigrants from the Dalma- tian village of Supetar, with scarcely more than that number left in Supetar today.
 Besides the political reason, there was also the economic reason which banished many Dalmatians to find homes in the new world. Those who