Evening star., 1944-05-04
Tito Mission Leader
Aays Agreement With
King Is Impossible
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated PreSS.
LONDON, May 4.-The leader
Of a military mission dispatched
to London by Marshal Tito de-
clared today there was no pos
sibility of an agreement being
reached between tho Kngoslav
National Liberation Council and
King Peter until the war Is over.
Young Maj. Gen. Vladimir velevit
spoke bitterly of the King and his
government and asserted neither
he nor his mission would have any
thing to do with them during his
stay in England.
There is no chance that we will
have any agreement with the King"
ne said. "It has been laid down by
our council that only the people in
q free election after the war can
decide they want monarchy"
Mission Sent to Moscow.
The general declared Gen. Draja
Mihailovich, war minister in King
Peters cabinet, was the No. enemy
of Tito's forces, even before Milan
Medic, the Yugoslav puppet premier.
Gen. Velevit said Tito had a mill
tary mission in Moscow and that he
had asked permission of the United
States to send one to America, but
mo answer has yet been received"
The Partisan officer and his COM
panion, Col Dolfe Vogelnik, gave a
long and detailed explanation of
Tito's aims and accomplishments at
press conference in London hotel.
The general, who spoke English
well, said he hoped to see Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower during his
visit here as well as Prime Minister
Churchill and British military chiefs.
He praised the aid given Tito by
Britain and America and said the
chief difficulty now was transport.
Aim is to Free Yugoslavia.
The only aims OF Tito's govern
ment, he said, are to free Yugoslavia
OF the Germans and make certain
the old regime does not return to
power without the peoples approval.
"Mihailovich has been fighting on
the side of the Germans against u.s."
he declared firmly. king Peters
government has decorated the very
men who are fighting against us
and who therefore are fighting
against the Allies. How can we be
expected to deal with such people?"
The general also expressed hatred
for the Ante Pavelic's Croatian Us
tashi army of about 10000 and said
that when one Is taken prisoner I'VE
put him before a court and then
shoot him" &C. 80
Gen. Velevit said 80 per cent OF
Tito's 100000 soldiers are Serbs, with
the remainder made UP of bat
talon of Hungarians and a handful
OF Germans, Bulgarians and Italians.
Praises Randolph Churchill.
The general praised the work OF
Maj. Randolph Churchill, British
Army officer, who recently para
chuted into Yugoslavia, declaring
he had shown great activity"
A broadcast communique from
Tito's headquarters today said the
Partisan forces were slashing at
German communications In Serbia,
Slovenia and Bosnia and declared
heavy losses had been inflicted on
the Germans in battles in Montene-
gro and Slovenia.
The bulletin said Tito's troops de-
stroyed the railway station at
Klupki in Serbia, five freight trains
in the Ljubljana and Trieste areas
and sank four river steamers.
Thz chief of the Yugoslav mill
tary mission said the Partisans suf-
fered fewer casualties in actual
fighting than when they had been
passive and let the Germans rule
them.
I'VE had 10 times as many cas-
ualties In three months of July, ALL
gust and September Of 1941 than
we have had in two and half
years since then in fighting" the
general said, adding:
1--WE estimate that we kill four
Germans for. every one they kill
of u.s."