Jugoslovenski Rotar

Communications. Yugoslavia has about 100.000 km of rail-lines which are State owned and well organized.

The roads are numerous, the total length of first and second class roads being about 40.000 km. with numerous other third class roads which are only of local character.

The main roads are in good condition, and although they seldom reach the high European standard, they are nevertheless suitable and convenient means of communication for motor cars. In the inland region there are 1.800 km. of navigable channels and rivers, the longest of which is the Danube.

The shipping for the local service at the coast is very well developped and well organized, with first class steamers which enjoy high reputation for comfort, cleanliness and efficiency. Tourist lines are run to Greece and other Mediterranean ports with luxurious steamers.

Tourism. This point is dealt with in other special articles appearing in this number, but it may be mentioned here that Yugoslavia is becoming more and more the Mecca of international tourists, thanks to its varied and romantic scenery, snow-clad mountains, its blue sea, glorious sunshine, clean Hotels and cheap living.

M. Abramić

CIVILIZING EFFORTS OF ANCIENT DUBROVNIK AND ITS ARCHITECTURE

Among the cities of the eastern Adriatic Coast Dubrovnik occupies a special cultural and historical position. Although its political independence came to an end in the days of Napoleon and though, under new conditions, its flourishing commerce, prosperity and wealth have been lost to a large extent in modern times, Dubrovnik has been able to retain its outstanding position to this very day. This prominent position among the cities of the Yugoslav Littoral Dubrovnik owes to the reflex of its former glory, to its monuments errected in the heyday of its prosperity and, most of all, to its architecture and sculpture, its ramparts and fortresses, its churches, cloisters and steeples, its governmental palaces and private mansions, its columns of liberty and public cisterns, which all together form a harmonious picture. Blue skies and crystalline seas, bare rocks and luxuriant vegetation enclose this unique jewel in 2 stately landscape.

The natives of Dubrovnik are conscious heirs and successors of their forefathers from whom they have inherited not only a glorious past but also the duty and readiness to follow in their wake by working for the benefit of the City and of their country altogether.

Refugees from the neighbouring city of Epidaurus (Cavtat), destroyed at the time of the Slavonic invasion, took shelter on a small island, divided only by a narrow shoal from the mainland, and thus