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Monday, 5 August 2019

The Serbian navy according to the Dutch newspaper Het Vaderland: staat- en letterkundig nieuwsblad morning edition dated 3 January 1920

The newspaper Politca published in Belgrado was quite indignant about the manner of distributing the ships belonging to the former Austrian-Hungarian navy. Serbia just received 12 disarmed torpedo boats while Italy got some maritime stations on the eastern coasts of the Adriatic Sea due to her strategically arguments. The journalist failed to understand the reason for this distribution. Either there never broke any war more out and was the League of Nations a success and didn’t Italy need such stations or it wasn’t righteous that Italy was allowed to control the whole area. Apparently was it forgotten that it were the South Slavic people who temporarily owned the Austrian-Hungarian fleet en were able to scuttle her. In stead they handed her over to the Entente not knowing that she was given to Italy with the result that she was used against Serbia so was feared!

Note
1. Founded as a result of the Peace Conference at Versailles, France after the First World War with on 25 January 1919 the first general meeting on 10 January 1920. Although in the twenties quite a success failed the League in the thirties to stop the advance of the Axis powers. She was after the Second World war succeeded by the United Nations.