Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-26
IN THE DAYS NEWS
BARANYA

"Baranya threatens to give Europe a new Plume and a new Wilma question, and the rest of the world a new name to puzzle over," says a bulletin from the Washington, D. C., headquarters of the National Geographic Society in regard patches say is attempting to secede and form a government of its own.
 The situation which has set the Bar anya region clamoring to be its own master is not wholly the result of the World War" continues the bulletin, but has it's roots far deeper. Ire South ern Slavs, nearly all of who mare now gathered in the kingdom of the Serbs. Croats and SIovenes, were the owners of much of present Hungary before the Rungarians rode out of their Asiatic fatherland to settle in Europe.
 "The very heart and center of the old Slav power was in the triangular ter ritory between the Danube. the Drave and the long. slender Lake Balaton. Gradually through the centuries the Magyars or Hungagians have pushed the Slavs from this territory forcing them south and west. Naturally, bitterness has IAaen enaendered The Mur and Brave rivers became the racial bound ary for 150 miles, but the Peace Con- ference recognized that the Slavs were strong in the southern point of Baranya near the junction of the Drave and the Danube and carried the Hungarian line north of the Drave river there, leaving a tiny triangle instead of a large one. But the bulk of Baranya was incorporated in Hungary as it had been before the war. and looked upon by the Jugo-Slavs as sort of Jugo-Slavia irridenta.
 Although Baranya was one Slav has percentage of Slavs in it's population. 1t also contains one of the most historic spots associated with the life of the Hungarian nation: the twice famous battlefield of Mohacs. On this field in | 1926 an army of Hunsarians under their king was defeated by the Turks who then over ran the greater part of the king dom, captured Buda, the capital, and kept the country in subjection for nearly a century and a half On the same field strangely enough. in 1887. the Hunga- rians defeate dthe Turks, finally driving them from the country
 Turkish influences were strong in 1 Baranya during the period of Hungary and Serbia's subjection. Across the Drave near the city of Eszek. Turkish engin- eers built a great bridge over which passed their main highway between sub iugated Hungary and Constantinople Over this bridge and through Baranya passed the turbsned hosts of Turkey tc lay siege to Vienna and so to threater the whole of central Europe. The bridge was dstroyed in 1863 by zrinyi one oi the numerous heroes, who, from the un conquered highlands of Hungary, harrieC the Turks throughout their rule in thu lowlands. A more modern structure crosses the Draye today in about thu
 same location and is one of the longes bridges in Europe.
 "one of the strange factors in thu Ipresent Baranya situation is that thu
 Magyar population of the region Is re ported to be leading the Slavs in tn
 demand that government be estab
 lished separate from Hungary. The re
 zion has been a center of liberalism
 among the Hungarians and oppositio,
 has developed to what they term th
 reactionary government cf Budapest Tn
 region had been invaded by Serbian
 troops before the close of the Wori
 War. and these troops rerrained, 1t wa
 stated. at the request of the inhabitants
 The most recent proclamation in regar
 to Rarznya- made in it's chief city, Pee
 or Punfkirchen. called for an independ
 ent republic under Serbian protection.
 "Pecs. which if the plans of the Bar , lanyans undertakes. will be newest c