Evening star., 1932-08-16
A MACEDOINE, Geneva-The
Sofia newspapers report that the
Serbian corporal, Tchedomir Ko-
A tol o,yitnh tho frontier

IL vatchevitch of the frontier
forces, a few days ago crossed
the boundary and sought asylum In
Bulgaria The Serbian outpoSts pur-
sued the fugitive a considerable dis
tance into Bulgarian territory, and re-
fused to retire until the alien patrol
opened fire on them. The corporal de-
clared that he had deserted the Serbian
military organization because OF his in
ability to endure any longer the ter
rible treatment to which he had been
subjected.
About the same date, the papers re-
ported the flight of Serbian school
teacher, also into Bulgarian territory.
He declared that after the discovery of
a military plot at Maribor the Serbian
authorities denominated him a suspl-
cious person, on the allegation that he
entertained republican notions, but
really in lieu of any prospects OF catch
ing the actual culprits. Fearing the
worst, he decided to flee to Bulgaria,
even at further risk of his life. Dur
ing the night of June 3. Serbian guards
on the Hungarian frontier shot another
man, the peasant Ivan EreS, while try
ing to escape into Hungary.
These three recent instances show
how the people, oppressed by Bel
grade, endeavor to fly from their
troubles at the peril of arrest,
imrisonment and even death, as
the cost of defending their ma
tional conscience, and refuse to be-
come Serbs CT, as they might more ap-
propriately be called, ''serfs." They
are eager for JugoSlavia in which all
nationalities will be equal in law. and
enjoy the same rights; for a Jugo-
, slavia no longer surrounded by an i'm
penetrable barrier of barbed wire, pit
traps, trenches and block houses, and
whose frontiers will be thrown open to
thousands upon thousands of exileS
! from Macedonia, Crotia, Slovenia and
Montenegro, whose burning desire is to
return to their homes from which they
were driven by the Serbian negemoniSt
regime. In a word these people are all
, fighting for a Balkan Switzerland where
there will be peace and liberty for all.
1t is useless to deny that Jugo-
slavia Of this kind is the only one which
will guarantee lasting and construc-
tive peace in the peninsula, and it would
be to BelgradeS interest to try and
comprehend that the moment has ar
rived to open up new era in the po-
litical history of the Balkans. But we
| do not have much hope of any speedy
change in the plans and purposes OF
the Serbian authorities at Belgrade, re-
garding the non-Serb peoples Of Jugo-
siavia.
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Panama Police
Troubled by Traffic.
Diario de Panama, Panan,a-The
traffic in this insignificant little city OF
ours, with a population of scarcely
10000, comes pretty nearly being a
''rompeca abeZas' ("head- breaking prop
osition') for our sapient police authori-
ties. We wonder sometimes what they
would do II they had to control the
traffic in some city like New York, Liv-
erpool. London, Chicago or Havana.
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Imposing Fraud
Gets Relief Funds.
La Vanguardia, Barcelona.-A coupl,
of raScals of local notoriety have gon,
to considerable trouble and some ex
pense in promoting fraud which, no
new in its general aspects, at least ha
/ not been prosecuted with such ostensi
BILE propriety before. In the Paseo ds
San Juan, two individuals solici5es
Senorita Padro La Cinera at the doc