Evening star., 1941-04-11
New Premier Urges
Croats 10 Desert
From YugosIav Army
Hungarian Forces March
To Reclaim Territory
Lost After Lost War
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BUDAPEST. Hungary, April IL
Gen. Sladko Kvaternik, proclaimed
Premier of a new independent Croat
state. was said to have appealed to-
day to Croat regiments now serving
with the YugoSlav Army TO return
Immediately to Zagreb.
Meanwhile the Hungarian Army
marched into Yugoslavia to reclaim
territory lost in the World War, and
Budapest Army report said Magyar
troops had crossed the frontier be-
tween the Danube and the lisa
Rivers as we'll as in the Baranya
between the Danube and the Drava
Rivers.
May Be Revolt Signal.
Observers said an appeal like
Kvaternik'S might be regarded as
a call to Croat troops-thousanGs
of whom are fighting against the
Germans and Italians elsewhere
to revolt against their Serb leaders
CThe Berlin radio last night
quoted the Zagreb, radio as an
nouncing that Croat sailors and
crews aboard a number of large
Yugoslav vessels along the Dali
matian coast had mutinied,
overpowered their Serb superb
orS and placed the vessel at the
disposal of the new Croat regime
in lagreb. The Berlin broad
cast was heard in New York by
N. B. c.
Kvaternik was quoted here as say
ing:
Il order every Croat regiment to
report to Zagreb. where l am sta
toned, to take the oath of allie
glance to the Croat state and its
leader, Dr. Ante Pavelic."
The new state will be composed
of Bosnia, Herzegovina and Dal-
malta as well as the old Croat prov
ince. informed sources said, with
Pavelic as President and Kvaternik
head of the government as premier
Proclamation Broadcast.
Kvaternik was said to have broad
cast the following proclamation to
the Croat people:
DR. Paveic, the leader of the
Croat people, and Adolf Hitler have
decided to rebuild the old Croat
state With this decision many
hundreds of years of fighting by the
Croat people and the long work of
DR.. Pavelic for the independence of
Croatia have found successful end
Il request every Croat to put him
self at the disposal of the new gov
ernment. I have taken over myself
the high command of the Croat
army
Il decree that the capital of the
new Croat state should receive the
German troops with Joy and loyalty
because GERMANY has made great
sacrifices for our people"
Vladimir Mack, leader of the
Croat peasant party and vice pre-
mier of the Yugoslav government of
Gen Dusan Simovic, was said to
have broadcast message asking all
members of his party to support the
new government.
Hungarian Nation Informed.
The Hungarian nation was in
formed of the march into Yugo-
slavia yesterday, and proclama-
ton of Regent Admiral Nicholas
Horthy was published in morning
papers today.
The proclamation said formation
OF an Independent Croat state in the
north left Yugoslavia dissolved
into several parts"
This act left Hungary the duty
10 take again in our own hands the
care for HungarianS living in the
territories stolen from us" it said.
Under the Treaty of Trianon in
1920 Hungary lost perhaps 100000
of her Magyar population to Yugo-
slavia in the Banat, Baranya and
Medjumurje regions.
The territory lost to Yugoslavia
was 63,851 square kilometers (about
24,653 square miles, with popu-
lation of approximately 4,l5O,0OO.
OF this, the new Croat state claims
42,541 square kilometers U6,425
square miles and 2,621, 900 popuIa-
ton. Most of these were not
Magyars.
Croats Congratulated.
Admiral Horthy congratulated the
Croat peoples on formation of their
independent nation and asserted
Hungary will respect it for all time.
I'VE have lived together with the
CroatS for a thousand years." his
proclamation said. Through bad
times and good we have always re-
spected and helped each other and
we wish the noble nation of Croats
TO find new independent state of
prosperity and happiness"
Morning newspapers published
long reports of anarchy in the dis
puted quarter of Yugoslavia and
asserted Hungarian and German
populated villages had been devas-
tated by "Yugoslav gangster bands"