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Show DKHHl LA1BACHJEGIDN Italians f and 'Jugo-Slav Armies Ready to Leap at One Another. By HEN ft Y WALES, (Chicago Tribune ijible. Copyright.) PARIS, March 2. The Serbians have mobilized sixty thousand Jugo-Slav yoyths in the Lai bach area, equipping them with Austrian arms and equipment, due to the lack of Hieir own accoutrements, accoutre-ments, and the present lta!ian--Serbian "front" is twelve to fifteen miles west of the Lai bach fortress, where Italians are holding the town of Adelborgidria and where troops are billoted in the grottoes grot-toes and mercury mines. Serbian troops comprise the Dvina division, which was considered the best unit of the Serbian army, and the Jugo-Slav contingents railed up In the Laibach area wore formerly for-merly impressed in the Austrian army. Six Italian divisions oppose them and Italian observation aeroplanes continually fly over Laibach taking photographs. Sinco the expu'slon of the commandant ; of Digiorgl and the Italian military mis-j mis-j sion from Laibach. there has been no further incident, but both sides are intrenched in-trenched with machine guns at strong points and m strategic positions along the highways "and railroads., The next point where trouble is likely to break out is in the Gorz fortress which the Italians seized, despite the Jugo-Slav population predominating, and which the Serbs wish to occupy pending a settlement by the peace conference, as they claim the Italians are persecuting the Jugo-Slavs, placing them in concentration camps without sufficient food and executing Jugo-Slavs under the pretext that they are fomenting proAustrian demonstrations. |