NEW REGIME IN HUNGARY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 277, 19 August 1919, Page 5

NEW REGIME IN HUNGARY

THE REFORMED CABINET

BOURGEOISIE-RADICAL

FLAVOUR

(By Telegraph-Press Assaciation-Cosyrlnlit

Copenhagen, August IG. An official report from Budapest', slates that the Co-binet has 'been reformed with Archduke Fredrieh still 1 as Premier, Lovaezy, ilinister for Foreign Affairs, and General Schnitzler as Minister for War. All aro Bourgeois Radicals. Other porties represented are small farmers, clericals, anti-Semites, ami the old official class. Several portfolios have been offered to Social Democrats, who hesitate to accept. owing to their fears of the Conservative and Bourgeoisie Parties. It is intended lo abolish Karolyi's scheme of proportional representation.—Center. AN INTERVIEW. Now York, August 17. • The Chicago "Tribune's" Budapest correspondent states that in the course of an interview the Archduke Joseph denied that his assumption of the Governorship was part of a Royalist plot. He said that bis officers represented to him that it was his duty to save the ccunlry, and he therefore assumed tho dictatorship. lie will resign as soon as tho new Cabinet is firmly established, and merely asks to bo allowed to make his home 'in Hungary. Jn answer to a question whether ho would acccpt the crown if the National Assembly, requested him to do so, he said it was a diiflcut question to answer at '.his time. He could not mako a reply until such a request was made.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. DANUBE TRAFFIC WATCHED BY ; BRITAIN. Budapest, August IG. Several British monitors and patrol boats have arrived to watch the Danube shipping.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ST. BARTHOLOMEW HORROR PLANNED. Budapest, August 17: The Bolshevik leaders confess that they had planned a kind of St. Bartholomews Evo massacro for August 7, when tho police and other officers _ suspccted of favouring a counter-revolution would have Ijcon murdered. Next night there was to have been a. wholesalo slaughter of tho whole of the bourgeoisie in Buda-pest.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. A CZECHOSLOVAK MOVE DANUBE BRTDGEHEAD CAPPTJRED. (Rec. August 13, 0.55 a.m.) Berlin, August 18. .A. message from Prague states that Czecho-Slovak troops to-day occupied tho bridgehead at Presburg, crossing the Danubo at two points partly on ratls and partly by the bridge. They silently captured tho Magyar picket, wheiv upon tho whole gairison surrendered — Keuter.