Bisbee daily review., 1920-08-29
BALKANS NEED
 A DUN QU|J0TE
Slav Premier Says Eastern Europe Wants Humorist
 or a Strong Hand


 Balkans now need to prevent new wars is a man of strong personalit! and charitable tendencies or a hum ! orous Don Quixote, according to Pre- mier Vesnitch, of Jugo-Slavia.
 Whether it is within the compass of human intelligence to prevent the present war tendencies the next few weeks will show. The broader aspect of the situation is that for Central Europe or the Balkan countries to become a great battlefield will be [ playing into the hands of the Bolshe- vik agents who are believed to be working industriously in each coun- try circulating war rumors and fo- mentiRg quarrels for which there are already too many reasons.
 That the Jugo-Slav government certainly does not want war with any other country the Associated Press is authorized to state from a high authority. It was pointed out that the Jugo-Slavs got all they could pos sibly hope for by the peace treaties in territories from Hungary and Bul- garia, and a new war might set back the infant nation. But they are de- termineN to have Plume. The people make loud protestations that their army gan master the Italian army. The Jugo-Slav army, they say, is re- garded by outsiders as being in good shape with 300,000 fresh troops ready. Also the word has been passed for mobilization of the peasants as soon as the harvests are in at the end of july.
 What the Jugo-Slavs do, it appears here. will be the signal for the Hun garians to jump after Pennsylvania and SlovalIia and later to attempt to retake the enormously fertile Batch ka from the Serbs.
 Riding south from Budapest into old Serbia the correspondent found few evidences to the eye of war pre- paredness on either side of the from oeiving notices of mobilization. The ceiving otices of mobilization. The Hungarians now within the Serbian
  that they must belong to a country whose people they regard as of a cul- ture lower than their own. They al so complain they are unable to ob- tain passports to visit their friends in New Hungary.
 While the Jugo-Slavs are said to be unafraid of war, yet they realize they occupy a perilous position with respect to international political dis sentions, as we'll as concerning what the Bulgars and Greeks might do in case the Jugo-Slavs made war on Italy. Not counting the Hungarians, it is not believed in American circles here that the Serbs and Bulgarians will reach an understanding for com mon action. However. regarding the Spalato incident it is believed if it is shown the Italians started the trouble. the Jugo-Slavs will insist strongly on an indemnity.
 A crowd of Croats attacked Italian naval officers at Spalato, July II, and killed an Italian commander and sev- eral sailors.
 A trip through the city streets con- vince one that all is quiet. Citizens generally deny any war madness. During the recent celebration of King Peters birthday no demonstration of a war nature occurred during the large parade.
 The premier, prior to the celebra- tion, issued a request to the people asking them to refrain from unfriend- ly acts and to allow the government to handle the affairs with Italy. He made q speech in parliament of the same tenor, stating he was willing to abide the investigation by the Amer ican naval authorities regarding the Spalato incident.
 The recent British loans and re- ports of a good harvest have improv- ed the dinar exchange. the dollar be- ing worth 16 to IF as against 20 to 30 few months ago. Prices, however, are high, meals in hotels costing Cheap shoes may be purchased at from 20 to 25 American dollars. Country people are selling foodstuffs to Austria and to the Poles and Czechs, but otherwise no real busi' ness is going on, owing to the ad- verse exchange rate preventing buy ing abroad and the demand of mer' chants for credit which few are will ing to extend.