THE RED MENACE
HUNGARY'S ADOPTION OF
BOLSHEVISM
DANGER TO RUMAN lA, FOIAND AND
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
SIGNS OF GERMAN INTRIGUE By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright (Bee. March 30, 5.5 p.m.) "' ' . Paris, March 28. Hungary's adoption of Bolshevism is regnrded as most serious, chiefly as endangering the Entente efforts to build up the Kumanian, Polish, and Czechoslovak States as bulwarks against German domination in Central Europe. All three States are menaced by the advancing Bolshevik amies. The neutral zone decided upon by the Peace Conference was intended to make the Hungarians desist from attacking the Bunmnians and communicating with the Eussians, while it olosed the gap between Poland and Rumania. According to. a Vienna dispatch, the Entente Note which precipitated the crisis defined the zone as. a belt 140 miles long and 40 miles, wide, virtually shutting Hungary behind the Rivers Theiss, Szamos, and Maros. The Note required the withdrawal of Hungarian troops behind tho western boundary of the belt within ten days, and authorised, the Rumanians' advance on the eastern, boundary. Civil,government within the zone is to be exercised under Allied control. Statements issued at Budapest accuse the Entente of forcing the revolution, but the revolt is nlore probably due to the occupation of parts of Hungary by the Czecho-Slovaks and the Rumanians, while signs are not wanting of German coliusion with th£ Bolsheviki.-^Reuter.
ENTENTE POWERS' DEMANDS ELECTION OF A NATIONAL AS- ■ SEMBLY UNDER SUPERVISION. (Hec- March 31, 0.30 a.m.) . ■ Copenhagen; March 29. Advices from Berlin state that the Entente Powers demanded the Hungarian Government's resignation and the election of a National Assembly under the. Entente's supervision—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ..... .BUDAPEST QUIETER AUSTRIAN NATIONAL GUARD AFFECTED. (Rec. March 30, 5.5 p.m.) i Paris, March 28. The latest reports state that Budapest is quieter. Four food trains are held up between Trieste and Budapest owing to the strike. 1
From a French source it is learned that the National .Guard of Austria is displaying Bolshevist tendencies.—Aus.N.Z. Cable .Assn. (Rec. March 30, 5.5 p.m.) v London, March 28. Shops in Budapest" are closed for stocktaking, pending State control,. Any shopkeeper disobeying will be shot.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. . , BULGARS MOBILISING ON SERBIAN FRONTIER '. (Rec. March 30, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, Marches, The Serbian delegates have learntfd teat the Bulgars aro mobilising on the Serbian frontier. General Pechitch, As-sistant-Chief of Staff, will return to Belgrade immediately!—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn; FRANCE BOLSHEVISM THE PLAGUE OF ' < HUMANITY. ■ (Rec. March 30, 5.5 p.m,). x Paris, March 27. The French apprehensions regarding Bolshevism have been reflected in the heated debate in the Chamber of Deputies during the last few days on the situation in Russia. M. Pichon declared that Bolshevism was not only the plaguo. of Russia, \but of humanity." The French .Government had been accused of playing into the hands of the Russian reactionaries, which meant that all who were not'partisans of Lenin and Trotsky, uero to be regarded as Tsarists. Ho regretted that the Socialist Minority had united to support the Bolsheviki against his Government. What tho latter desired was a Russian Federal Republic. Ho did not i despise the Bolshevist army, which was staffed by German officers. Tho Socialists hotly protested aguinst being stigmatised as Bolshevist because they resisted the idea of military intervention in Russia. M. Pichon rejoined: "You are; not Socialists." Uproar drowned M. Pichon's further Temarka. '
.M. Pichon maintained that it vas necessary to retain the Allied forces 1 in Ri'ssia. He stated that there were 13,000 British, 5000 American, 2319 French, 2500 Italians,,and Serbians, and 12,000 Russians in the Archangel region.—Aus.-N.Z. .'Cable Assn. - ■
POLITICAL CRISIS IN BERLIN INTENSE PROPAGANDA WORK. .-■■■■ London, March 28. . There are indications of a political, crisis in Berlin; following upon tho developments in, Hungary. There was some shooting in the streets on Tuesday. The British Embassy has a triple guard. Fresh strikes have broken out in .the Ruhr district. : _ Tho Spartacus party' planned a rising of Russian war prisoners at Spandau, but the Americans interfered and scattered the Russians throughout the country, thus 'preventing'tho outbreak.—' Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Rec. March p.m.) London, March 28. The "Daily Chronicle's" Copenhagen correspondent states that the German Government will peAaps remain in office long enough to sign peace, especially, as nobody is anxious to bear the odium of accepting a • dictated peace. „■ Competent observers predict that the Government will not last, long after. Nobody is interested in the,-somnolent discussions at Weimar. Intense propaganda on behalf of royalist restoration - is progressing. Monarchism is growing, and is accelerate'! by ; appeals against the signing oftho Peace Treaty and the breaking up of the Fatherland's unity and integrity. The Spartacists may also derive strength from a reawakened nationalism 'similar to that of Hungary; where'.thq people followed ' the revolutionary leaders into an alliance with the Bolslieviki rather than have the country ' occupied by foreign troops. The Hungarian and Bulgar movements are .interpreted in some circles as part of a concerted plan, long prearranged in Berlin, to ripen on the eve of tho presentation of the > peace terms. The originators counted on the Ei.tente nations mutually quarrelling, and latterly hoped that the Bolshevist manifestations would be taken as a serious menace, inducing ultimately easier terms.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. FREQUENT DAYLIGHT ROBBERIES. (Rec. Jfllrch 30, 5.5 p.m.) _ London, March 28. Daylight robberies by the soldiery are occurring frequently in Berlin., Two robbers wearing iron crossc.s entered a food office, covered the clerks with revolvers,, and stole nearly ten thousand bread, meat, sugar, and coffee < cards. Similar robberies of jewellers' stocks and farmers' live stock have occurred.—Ans.-N.. Cable Assn. SI'ARTACIST DISORDERS IN ESSEN RIOTING IN OTHER DISTRICTS. (Rec. March 30, 5.5 p.m.) London, March 29. Spartacist disorders have recurred in the Essen area. A mob at Witten endeavoured to storm the "Volks Zeitung" offices. A cordon of police barred entry to the building. Bombs were freely thrown, and eleven were killed tnd wounded. Minora "Doit-
mund and the neighbouring districts n.ro rioting owing to food shortage.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. GERMANY SEEKING SUPPORT IN RUSSIA BOLSHEVIK AGENTS IN SCANDINAVIA. Paris, March 11. The French are officially satisfied thatGermany is seeking political suport in Russia, and also in the economic field there, to' replace what she has lost in the outside -world. News has reached the French officials that a large number of Bolshevik agents, well supplied with _ the : old Russian money, nave arrived in Scandinavia, particularly in Norway;—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. "GERMANY MUSTTURN EASTWARDS" STATEMENT BY DERNBERG. (Rec. March 30, 5.5 p.m.) | Paris, March 28. Heir Dernberg (formerly German Minister of the Colonies), writing in. the "Berliner Tageblatt," says that Germany is threatened with dishonour, instead of security, on the West, <ind must turn Eastwards to satisfy her needs and realist) her' future.—Reuter. ALLIED ACTION PROPOSED TO CHECK BOLSH HVIK PENETRATION. . (Bee. March 31,-1.15 a.m.) New York, March 29. The "Herald" states that the Council of Four, after consultation with the Allied generals, .propose the mobilisation of friendly peoples between the Baltic and the Black Sea, under Allied military direction, with complete Allied aid to check the Bolshevik penetration.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable A«sn-
SCHIEDEMANN AND THE PEACE TERMS
(Reo. March 30, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, March 2S. Herr 'Sobeidemann, speaking in tho National Assembly, declared that the peace terms appear to be growing worse. Ho intends to comply with von, Ludendorii'B request for a trial before the High Court—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BAVARIA DISARMING . (Rec. March 30, 5.5 p.m.) Berne, March 24. ' The Bavarian Foreign Minister informed , the German Government lhat Bavaria ■ was disarming and would not henceforth furnish soldiers for the Empire.—Reuter. ANTI-BOLSHEVIK'FORCES POSSIBILITY OF UNKING THEM , UP. / Paris, March 28. General Haller, who is in command of the Polish division in France, complains of the indecision of the Conference in regard to the return of his division to Poland.. What had happend in Hungary and elsewhere would have 'been impossible but for tho passive policy of the Allies.;. Ho does not consider the upheaval' in Hungary serious, liut > only symptomatic); It would riot bo difficult to link up the anti-Bolshevik forces from Serbia to the Black Sen, with the help ot the Poles and Rumanians, and thus create a barrier which tho Bolshevilci could not pass.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
PROGRESS BY THE POLES BOLSHEVIKI EXPELLED FROM MINSK. ■ (Rec. March 31, 0.30 a.m.) Amsterdam, March 29. Von Hindenburg inspected the troops on tho Posen and Silesian front. ■ A telegram from Warsaw says the Poles expelled 'the Bolsheyiki from Minsk, ivhich was a great centre of Bolshevist propaganda. Tho Poles are also progressing in East Gnlicia. Tho Ukrainians are retiring'ill disorder along the Kokowiecz-Jaworow line—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. IN THE BALTICPROVINCES BOLSHEVIKI STILL RETREATING. London, March 22, The Bolsheviki continue to retreat in tho Baltic provinces. Lettish troops and the Baltic Lundwehr have gained ground further, to tho eastward.' Tho Landvvehr, by a bold and swift raid from Tulckum, occupied Mitau.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
BRITISH SOCIALIST CAMPAIGN '. TO COUNTERACT BOLSHEVISM. London, March 28. • The Socialist Party in Britain has decided to carry on a. campaign in tho industrial districts, with tho object of ooun. teracting Bolshevism.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.
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