4 AUGUST 1917, Page 1

Delegates from the Southern Slav provinces of Austria-Hungary, in a

six weeks' Conference with the Serbian Government at Corfu, have drafted a charter for the future "Kingdom of the Serb., Croats, and Slovenes" under the Karageorgevitch dynasty. The charter, summarized in Monday's Times, declares that the Kingdom will "include all territory compactly inhabited by our people,"

with both Serbia and Monteneere, forming a democratic State of twelve million inhabitants, 'a powerful bulwark against German aggression." It -is-not known whether the project eame before the Allied Conference. In any case, an indispensable condition for its success is that the goodwill of Italy -shouldbe secured and preserved by the Southern Slays, whom the- Italian Army is doing ita utmost to liberate from the Austrian tyranny.