Show u SlA JUH-SlA V VI I INSIST ON i IT ITALIANS H E T I HI N United States Government Informed Serbs Croats and Slovenes les' les Pl Propose to Comb Combine 1 in One State r W ASHINGTON rON ri Dee 9 Formal Fonn Formal l peen been given the thc American Amer Anier ican can goYert o of the p POs of the Serbs Crot nn an and l Slovenes SIO formerly held by the Austro government government govern govern- ment to to unite W th I tile lie kingdom of f Serbia Serbin in a It single Jugo ac stale state and to Jurist on evacuation c of Jugo- Jugo Slav territory now now- O occupied by Italy Official texts presented to the thc state department dep t today of ad addresses re ses by I Prince Regent Alexan Alexander er of ot Serbia and I a of ot twenty seven members r 1 from froni tho the national council of oC Zagreb j I I delivered dell at nt Belgrade Belgra e December 1 The I prince regent resent accepted the proposal of ot otI I the tho Zagreb council for union under a I parliamentary government t the thc delegation delegation delea- delea tion lion t to be received d to to sit It provisionally I at Belgrade as representatives of or their people until a constituent assembly can cnn be held within six months after th the conclusion of oC peace u t Demanded After Arter submitting the proposal for tor the the Zagreb delegation ele atlon said aid lv Ve are grieved to be e obliged to o place Jf atc ruf hat N w wl pa l art j lJ I J JP Jed hit or Ule dt t- t lt y which is allied with the powers of ot the I entente and with which we wo desire to live IIvo in friendly relations but we cannot cannot cannot can can- not recognize tho opportunity of or an any treat treaty not even en that of oC London which is in of oC tho tIne principles of national na na- na- na it Wo We 0 desire to draw raw tho the attention of or your our royal highness to the fact that the thc extent of oC the tho Italian occupation greatly exceeds the tho limits and tho the regions foreseen In iii tho the clauses of ot the tho armistice concluded with tho the commander in chief of ot tho the Austro arm army after the proclamation of ot those these territories as independent and an integral part of or ortho tho the Serb Croat Groat and Slovenes state and we will furnish the government of your our ro royal al highness s with proof of ot this in intIne thc tIne full conviction that your our ro royal al hl highness will make It his task to toGether together together to to- gether with our entire nation to see to it that the thc definite frontiers of ot our state are arc drawn in such a n. wa way that the they accord with tho the ethnographical frontiers and andl andare are arc in conformity with the tho principles laid down b by President Wilson lIson of or tho the United States and other powers of or the tho entente Union Proclaimed d The prince regent In his address said In tho the name namo of his majesty maJest Kink King Peter I proclaim the thc union ot of Serbia with the provinces of independent state of or Sorbs Serbs Croats an and Slovenes In Inthe Inthe inthe the united kingdom of oC Serbs Croats an and Slovenes I an and m my as assure assure assure as- as sure you ou of or our complete acceptance of oC your our desires which you OU have ha Just laid before me Faith Faithful CuI to the tho example which tho the king my father has given me I will willbe willbo willbo bo be solely tho the king of oC free citizens of ot tho the state of or Serbs Croats and Slovenes and will always remain faithful to the great constitutional and parliamentary principles founded on the tho general rights For this reason I ask your col collaboration 01 for the formation of or a government gov gov- which will represent alt all the united fatherland Solution Hoped HOllet For or ForThe The fhe government go will havo have as its first duty to trace together with you OU the tho ethnographical frontiers of oC our entire entire en- en tire nation I have the right to hope hopu that our great allies will vilI Judiciously JudicIous appreciate our point of at view vie for tor it corresponds to tho the principles they the thc havo hae themselves proclaimed and for which thc they have havo poured out so 80 much blood I further hope that this point of oC view will also be bo admitted b by the tho Italian go government go era m C n L Tho The regents regent's address was countersigned countersigned counter counter- signed b by tho the minister of or finance prime primo minister and minister of oC foreign affairs attain ad nd interim Stoyan and thc the other ministers at present at 13 Belgrade el grade |