To the Editor of the "Nonri-Cumwa Darty News"
Sm—Your correspondent "PK."
out in a new role as ® cham pion of Croat rights, Instead of Pursuing his usual these of Hung 'Han misfortunes, but he strikes false a note with' the one as with th other.
In extolling the benefits of Hungarian rule enjoyed by the Croats. in pre-war days, and the iniquity of the new arrangement, he overlooks an Obvious comparison which unfriendly persona might draw between the tragic event at Marseilles and the similar affair at Sarajevo in. 1914, Did the Austrians and Hungari after the latter event, indulge in any heart-searchings as to injustices they might have committed again t Serbia, from whom they had, in the past, annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina?
'No, Sir, Hungarian troops marched centhtisiasiically beside the Austrians to what they thought would be ar easy campaign against a small and iM-organized force, the only defence of this particular' heroic minority (until other interests intervened). 1 not wish to argue whether Croats were better off under Hungarian than Serbian rule, but only to draw your correspondent's attention to the fact that the catastrophe of 1014 was also of Injustice, the result of tional polley of the Court That the Habsburgs were able to carry this policy into the twentieth century was a direct result of the Congress of Vienna. which perpetraled the same injustices us the Peace Conferences of 1919. Tam not aware that the voice of Hungarian legislators was raised in protest when Hungar-Jons were asked to follow the Babs. burg banner against Serb 'The moral: is this, that those who' wish to serve Hungary will not do so by blind partisanship, which re-resents her only as an Innocent sufferer. Onty by a frank admission of our mistakes can we secure a aympathelle ear for our misfortunes,
mise "PX? for ater all, T beg to subscribe Honcantan. Shanghai, Oct. 18,
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