UPHEAVAL IN AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 112, 29 January 1918, Page 5

UPHEAVAL IN AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

SOVIET ORGANISATIONS FORMED BIG STRIKE AT WARSAW By Telegraph-Preps Association-Copyright Petrograd, January 27 Bolshevik newspapers state that great demonstrations are taking place over the whole of Austria-Hungary. Soviet organisations have been formed at Vienna and Budapest. A big strike has begun at Warsaw.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ■ UPHEAVALS ASSUMING SERIOUS PROPORTIONS. (Rec. January 2S, 11.30 p.m.) Washington, January 27. The State Department is advised that there • is increased restiveness amongst the Slav population in Austria, particularly the Czechs. The Austrian upheavals are assuming serious proportions.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn'. THE GENERAL STRIKE AT BUDAPEST INNER CITY SURROUNDED BY SOLDIERS. Amsterdam, January 27. The "Berliuer Tageblatt" states that the general strike in Budapest commenced on the morning of January 19. Bosnian reserve soldiers, with machine-guns, surrounded the inner city and strongly .occupied all the bridges. The strikers were massed in the outer portions of the capital, and were not allowed to enter the inner city. Street traffic was entirely, suspended, and the shops were closed. Thirty members of the Labourers, Soldiers, and Students' Union were arrested before the strike—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . NEW HUNGARIAN CABINET FORMED WITH COUNT WEKERLE AT T HE HEAD. >' (Rec. January 28, 8.30 p.m.) London. January 27. A new Hungarian Cabinet has been formed, with Count Wekerle as Premier. A telegram from Budapest states' that the King has sanctioned the new Government's programme, which will comprise the formation, of a national Hungarian army, and the drawing up of a new Austro-Hungarian commercial treaty.—Renter. GARRISON MUTINY IN GERMANY 8000 MEN CONFINED TO BARR ACKS. Zurich, January 27. • Two hundred invalid soldiers, who interrupted a meeting of the Fatherland Party in Berlin, were arrested. The news of the arrest caused indignation in the garrison, culminating in a mutiny, at Friedrichsdorf, near Berlin, with the result that eight thousand mon were confined to barracks, and the ringleaders were imprisoned.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ALL MEETINGS BANNED IN G ERMANY. (Rec. January 28, 8.30 p.m.) Berne, January 27. Owing to the prevailing political excitement all meetings have been prohibited in Germany.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.