The national claims of the Serbians, Croatians and Slovenes : presented to the Brothers of the Allied Countries . acter of this part of the Banatcan equally be judged by the fact that the Serbians of theWestern and Central Banat possess eleven times more landthan thr Roumanians. The Germans are not taken intoconsideration in this question of delimitation of the differentnationalities. They are too far from their territories, are notestabished in a continuous territory and have no contact what-ever with Germany. As for the Serbians and Roumanianswho touch their national territories, they must b
The national claims of the Serbians, Croatians and Slovenes : presented to the Brothers of the Allied Countries . acter of this part of the Banatcan equally be judged by the fact that the Serbians of theWestern and Central Banat possess eleven times more landthan thr Roumanians. The Germans are not taken intoconsideration in this question of delimitation of the differentnationalities. They are too far from their territories, are notestabished in a continuous territory and have no contact what-ever with Germany. As for the Serbians and Roumanianswho touch their national territories, they must be Serbians are in contact in the South and in the West withtheir fellow-countrymen, and the Roumanians in the East. In consequence, the delimitation between Serbians andRoumanians will have to be done in the East, and betweenSerbians and Hungarians in the North. The delimitation between Serbians and Hungarians can be• atdly and equitably obtained. —In the Yougoslav part of theBanat there ar. Magyars of whom a great number areState and other functionaries with their families. All the. Ancient boundariesProposed » — (>8 — functionaries and officials of the railways, the roads, thecanals and all the gendarmes are Magyars. Their numberoften reaches -!<» ? of the total population. If one deductsthis Dumber there only remain about Magyars perma-nently established in our Banal, and they are nowhere incompact masses or in contacl with the national Magyar terri-tory. Moreover, we must make the remark that the officialHungarian statistics are notoriously uncertain, especially tothe detriment of the Slavs. We possess a proof of this inthe sl;ilistirs of Hie orthodox Serbians published by theSerbian Patriarchate of Karlovitzi, according to which thenumber of the Serbians in the Comitats of Torontal andTamis amounts t against only as indicatedin the Hungarian statistics. The Banat, the Batchka and Syrmia constituted th
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