WEST HUNGARY

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 288, 31 August 1921, Page 5

WEST HUNGARY

DISPUTE OVER SURRENDER OF TERRITORY MAGYARS ATTACK AUSTRIAN GENDARMES By Telegraph—Frees Association— Copyright (Rec. August 30, 5.5 p.m.) London, August 30. Tho "Morning Post’s” Vienna correspondent states that affairs in W’est Hungary have taken a serious turn. An irregular Magyar force attacked a column of Austrian gendarmes, and there we«e a number of casualties. ' Bands of irregulars have also surrounded the town of Sopron (or Odenburg), with tho evident intention of preventing Austria from taking possession of Burgenland as the Entente had arranged for to-day. Austria is too weak to help herself, so that the Vienna Cabinet will appeal to tho Entente itself to force the surrender of the disputed territory. Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. INTER-ALLIED "MISSION SURPRISED HUNGARY’S CONNIVANCE IN PLOTSUSPECTED. (Rec. August 30, 10.30 p.m.) Vienna, August 29. An insolent plot engineered in Burgenland, and reminiscent of D’Annunzio and Korfanty, has taken the Inter-Allied Mission and the Austrian authorities by surprise. The Mission’s force of two hundred is inadequate to deal with bands totalling three thousand. The attitude of Hungary is interesting. Tho next fow hours will confirm or contradict a suspicion that Hungary is conniving at a plot which seems to have been planned to cut off south-eastern Burgenland, which is to be held as a means of forcing concessions from Austria. But the plan may grow with success. Count Sigray, tho Government Commissary in West Hungary, has officially notified Budapest that Hungarian troops have evacuated West Hungary.—“ The Times. ’ HUNGARY’S TREATY OBLIGATIONS AN ALLIED WARNING. Reuter’s Agency announced last month that it understood that now the three Great Powers had ratified tho Trianon Treaty it would come into force in a few days, with the result that various territorial questions would call for immediate settlement. The principal of these relate to the German counties of Western Hungary, which under the Treaties of St. Germain and Trianon were assigned to Austria. There had, unfortunately, been a growing reluctance on the part of certain quarters in Hungary, particularly the military and monarchist groups, to accept tho decision, and a desire to elude Hungarian obligations and seize these territories, and they ask for delay pending an arrangement with Austria had been manifested. While the Allied Governments would raise no opposition to an amicable settlement between Austria and Hungary, such a settlement could only be arrived at on the basis of the territories in question being considered ns legally Austrian, and must depend on the Austrian Government being recognised as the legal owner Arrangements had been made for an Allied Military Commission to effect the transfer of these' territories, and it wag hoped that tho Hungarians would not, by attempting to escape _from their obligations, compel their enforcement by the Allied Powers interested.