In Quaint, Curious Croatia 



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in the; austro-hungarian province of dalmatia 



government, in perhaps a quarter of an 

 hour the police will come and seize all 

 the copies ; the editor is also arrested or 

 else must pay a heavy fine. With the 

 populace, however, the editor becomes a 

 hero; such imprisonment is not looked 

 upon as a shame. 



There are no newsboys in Croatia. 

 Instead a subscriber comes to the office 

 to get his copy or else it reaches him 

 through the mail. Hence it is that the 

 government can seize practically all 

 copies of an edition within a short time 

 after appearance. Often, moreover, it 

 will be two or three days before the 

 editor may know for just what article he 

 was fined. 



Again, the opposition papers do not 

 get recognition from the government as 

 journalists do. Hence they do not get 

 passes on the government railways, are 



refused permits through the police lines 

 in time of trouble, and have most stren- 

 uous times competing with their more- 

 favored rivals. Strangely enough, in 

 Croatia they are free to criticise the 

 Hungarian government, but not that of 

 Croatia itself. 



A traveler in Croatia finds other things 

 of even greater general interest. 



Fiume, the great Magyar seaport, for 

 example, while appearing on the map as 

 nominally Croatian, is in fact a royal 

 free city — one of the very few of the 

 sort remaining in Europe. It holds di- 

 rect from the Crown. 



Fiume has an American interest, in 

 that it is at this port that the tremendous 

 hordes of immigrants from the southeast 

 of Europe embark for America. Ves- 

 sels especially built for immigrant ser- 

 vice take these across at a minimum rate- 



