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Show - H1T10N OF JUGOSLAVS ' IS IUN0F FASrFGH Premier of Serbia Hopes to Accomplish Great Things for the Country. TALKS OF HIS WORK Now in Exile, but Has v Great Hopes of Success of Scheme. By International News Service. LOKDON. Sept. 22. J. Saxon Mills, writing In a London newspaper, inter-I inter-I ngly narrates the plans of Premier Vjl'ffasitch of Serbia for creating a great new nation of Jugoslavs (southern Slavs) in the Balkans and southeastern Austria. He says: By J. SAXON MILLS. The Jugoslavs are that branch of the Slavonic family consisting of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes who inhabit the southern provinces of Austria and Hungary, Hun-gary, as well as Serbia proper, Bosnia, Herzegovina and Montenegro. The settlement set-tlement of lSlo drove the Austrian frontier fron-tier right through the middle of these people, who. In tradition, blood and lan-guage, lan-guage, form truly one nation. For fifty years Austria and Hungary have depressed de-pressed and oppressed these subject Slavs, regarding them, especially in later years, as the one great obstacle In the way of Germanic advance down the valley val-ley of the Morava and the Vardar to Sa-lonikl. Sa-lonikl. Caused Present War. r The determination to get rid of Serbia and remove this barrier once for all was perhaps the main cause of the present pres-ent war. And let us not forget that behind be-hind the dual monarchy has been the German empire, working and pushing southward and eastward to the Aegean, Constantinople anfi Asia Minor beyond. If we are to resist this movement tre must oppose to it something stronger than the courageous little kingdom of Serola. And this Is wrgit interests the allied powers In the union of the twelve millions of Jugoslavs. England has an interesting guest at present in the person of M. Paskch, the prime minister of Serbia. He is a venerable ven-erable figure, with a patriarchal white beard and an expression which is at once stern and benevolent. His nation Is now in exile, but he will no doubt live to aee tt fully restored and avenged. Distrusts Hapsburg. M. Pasitch has no faith in the olive branches which Charles Hapsburg (as i the Austrian emperor is sometimes called) has been offering to the nationalities na-tionalities under his sway. He regards li-m as the result of "necessity and em-""Danrassment," em-""Danrassment," .to be recalled as soon as circumstances allow. "In any case,"' he said to me, "the control of the army and of foreign politic, poli-tic, would always be kept in the hands of the German and the Magyar, the two dominant races. The dual monarchy, as at present constituted, will continue to be the servant of the German empire. "We have had too long an experience to trust Austro-Hungarian promises. The whole game will begin again. Even if the concessions are granted the government govern-ment will do Its utmost to cause disputes dis-putes and differences among its subject peoples on the good old principle of 'divide 'di-vide and conquer.' " Only One Solution. "But," I asked, "is there no chance of reconstituting the empire on a freer basis and substituting 'trialism' for 'dualism'?" "That is simply a device for saving whut is now finite past salvation. There is only one solution of this problem which can be final and enduring that the Austro-Hungarian empire should go into liquhJation. You must remember that the non-German and non-Magyar races, the oppressed nationalities of that artificial artifi-cial empire, constitute a large majority of the population. If the empire is liquidated liqui-dated Germany would gain about eigltt million Germans now living in Austria. But she would lose elsewhere, in Schles-wig, Schles-wig, Poland. Alsace and Lorraine, an eaual numtier of other subjects now under un-der her enrorced rule." "And what would be the other states issuing from this liquidation?" Millions Included. "The .1 ugoslavs would form one, with twelve million people. The Czecho-Slovaks would make another, with fourteen millions ; the Poles Russian, Prussian and Austrian another, of ' twenty-two millions, and the Magyars would be reduced re-duced to their proper position ns a small, independent nation of ten millions. In all, fifty millions of subject people would be built into ''healthy, progressive and national communities." "And thai, you think, would insure peace in this storm center of the world?" "You would have satisfied long-standing aspirations to liberty and erected a Jjughty barrier against the pressure of "Tn -German ambit ion." One difficulty, that of a possible clash between Italian and Slavonic interests, will, we may hope, be weathered. M. Pa si ten could not anticipate the precise solution of this problem. "Wo desire," lie sa Id. "to live in friendship and alliance al-liance with the Italian people. There is plenty of room for both of us, and our interests in beating back the Teutonic storm clouds, always lowering from the north, are identical." |