Evening star., 1948-07-12
Old Macedon Rivalry
Is Revived by Split Of
Balkan Communists
YueosIov Area Supports
Tito, Criticizes Stond
Of Bulgarian Reds
By the Associuted Press

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, July
12.-The Communist patch on
the ancient Macedonian sore was
ripped off today.
The Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Yugoslav
Macedonia declared its solidarity
with Marshal Tito as against the
Cominform, and in so doing dis
closed that old Bulgarian and Yugo-
slav rivalries for Macedonia con-
tinue under the surface despite
Communist alliances.
The Macedonian Communists
charged the Bulgarian Communist
Party and the Bulgarian Fatherland
Front with following deeply
chauvinistic" and nationalistic line.
The Macedonian Communists said
in their resolution that Bulgarian
Communists during the war were
in complete accord with the Bull
garian Fascist occupation of Mace
donia."
I'VE are being accused of nation
alsim by that same leadership in
the Bulgarian Communist Party
which in 1941 usurped our party
organization, separated it from the
Communist Party of Yugoslavia,
and added it to the Bulgarian
Party" said the resolution.
Terrorists Rounded I'm
YugoSlavia by indirection yester-
day warned the Cominform against
trying to send spies into Yugoslavia,
by declaring every one OF the spy
groups sent into the country by
Ante Pavelic, wartime puppet chief
of Croatia, had been caught.
The announcement was made last
night by the Interior Ministry OF the
semi-autonomous Yugoslav State of
Croatia. 1t said the groups were
formed by wartime Nazi collabora-
tors, now in exile, and an unidenti-
fed foreign intelligence service"
The communique, which appeared
in the Communist Party organ
Borba, said the spy groups are led
by Ante Pavelic, top Yugoslav war
criminal and premier of the Croa-
tian puppet government during the
war and a DR.. Krunoslav Draga-
movie. whom 1t identified as priest
attached to the Vatican
The announcement said the plot
tiers sent 10 groups totaling 95 per-
sons into the country during the last
year and added that Yugoslav Sc
curity police nabbed all of them.
Trials Due to Start Today.
Mass trials of the terrorists are
expected to begin today, the COM
munique said.
Pavelic is believed to be in exile
in Italy. Draganovic also is be-
lieved to have been outside the
country since the war.
Can authoritative Vatican
source denied that DR.. Kruno-
slav Dragonovic, a priest, was
involved in sending spies into
Yugoslavia. The source said DR..
Dragonovic was instructor in
theology at Zagreb until 1945.
when he sought refuge at Vati-
can City. He is now attached to
/. the Ecclesiastical College of Saint
Girolamo of the Illyrians. Most
of his students and faculty are
SlaVs)
The communique charged that
Pavelic sent in plotters entrusted
with "the task of organizing armed
bandid groups for the purpose OF
committing terror and espionage in
Yugoslavia for a foreign intelligence
service"
The announcement said that
among those captured was Vladimir
Sabolich, former interior secretary
for Pavelic, and Comdr. Bozidar
Kavran, former Pavelic aide.
Borba also declared that young
Yugoslavs sent to Russia to pre-
pare for future leadership In the
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