Evening star., 1946-09-03
BY the Assoeio:ed Press

BELGRADE, Sept. 3.--The tol-
io,uing is the teTt of the Yngoslap
note OF August 30 to the United
States State Department, as
printed in Belgrade newspapers
today.
In connection with the continual
flights of military and civilian air
force of the United States over
Yugoslav territory, thus infringing
the sovereignty of our country, the
government of Yugoslavia addressed
several notes of protest and demands
to the United States Government re-
questing that unauthorized flights
cease and that investigations be car
ried out against those who were re-
sponsible. Not in one single case has
there been given the necessary and
satisfactory reply or been undertaken
measures to prevent this.
Also, the Yugoslav government has
not received the necessary reply to
its two latest notes one dated
August 10, No. 9470, concerning the
flight over our territory and forced
landing of an American military
transport plane, type CAT, on
August 8 and further owing to the
flight OF another American plane.
No. 4374, on August 10, the crew of
which unfortunately met with a
tragic end which could undoubtedly
have been prevented had it obeyed
tho SiOnoI tn 1orG ,,1,
well as many before them flew deep
into Yugoslav territory. the first over
70 and the second over so kilometers.
Both planes did not fly over Yugo-
slavia owing to bad weather because
the weather was favorable over the
Alps those days, and there was no
bad weather which could be very well
seen from the Yugoslav side of the
Alps.
Therefore, however much the
death of the victims is regrettable
owing to the tragic end of the plane
which occurred August 10 this year,
the government of Yugoslavia cannot
bear any responsibility for this be-
cause on its part it has done all in
order to avoid such cases which oc-
CURED and which can very easily
occur on frontier where our army
as in every independent country has
task to guard the inviolability of
its territory and the sovereignty of
its country.
In connection with the above-men-
toned facts, the government of
Yugoslavia again asks the United
States Government to reply what it
has undertaken to put an end to un-
authorized and deliberate flights
over Yugoslav territory on the part
of American military and civilian
planes and what guarantees it can
give this will not be repeated.
This is all the more urgent be-
cause fights over Yugoslavia have
been repeated in these regions even
after the case which occurred August
19, for example:
August %, three planes, of which
two were bombers and one trans
port plane, flew over Yugoslav terri
tory; August "a, eight planes, of
which three were bombers, three
pursuits and two transports August
25, three planes-two pursuits and
one transport; August 26. nine
planes, of which seven were pursuits,
one a transport and one a bomber;
August 81, nine planes, of which five
were bombers, two transports and
two pursuits.
From the number of planes which
daily and repeatedly fly over Yugo-
slav territory, it is clear that in all
cases this is not done owing to neces-
sity or to bad weather but that in
majority Of cases our territory was
again deliberately crossed.
Marshal Tito in a statement to
United States Ambassador Orchard
c. Patterson declared he issued or
ders forbidding the opening of fire
on transport and other planes which
might fly over YugoslaV territory ;,