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Show JUG0 SLAVS STAMP OUT ALL COMMUNISM BELGRADE, Jan. 11 Communism seems to have been suppressed in this country, The vigorous action of the government which recently passed a law imposing Hie death penalty upon enemies of public security and offenders of-fenders ugainst the state has si rude terror Into the hearts of radicals and revolutionaries. The Jails of the country are choked with persons accussd of Bolshevik or Communist activity and others who are not In prison are declared to be either thoroughly, cowed or to have fled from the country. Those persons implicated In the murder last July of Iff. Dl&Chklvltch, the minister of the interior, an. I In the attempt to as-sasslnate as-sasslnate Jugo-Sluv ia s young king. Ali-r.inHr velll I.. ;.,..,,rl,l 1.. r-t-l In January. Among them are a number of Ooramunlal deputies in parliament. Jugo-Slavla's statement assert that ths entire Communist party, once o-f formidable and menacing proportions, has been suppressed as a result of fearle6n action by the government and that many o1' Its members have betn exiled or Imprisoned. The parliamentary privileges of Communist members of the national assembly, numbering nearly 60, have been cuucclled and since August none of them "has participated in the proceedings. pro-ceedings. Communist newspapers and propaganda organizations throughout the country have been suppressed and their principals placed In custody or under Surveillance. Communism first gained n foothold In Jugo-Slala in 1919. |