AUSTRIA INTERNALLY.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1918, Page 2

AUSTRIA INTERNALLY.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. COPYRIGHT.j REGENCY COUNCIL IN CHARGE. AMSTERDAM, November 3. Advices from Sofia state the Council of 'Regency have taken charge of affairs in Bulgaria. Stambulinsky. the peasant leader has an army of forty thousand in the rebellion. JOUR NEW REPUBLICS. LONDON November 3. Latest advices show that Hungarj, Austria and Bohemia have established Republics. Bulgaria is also a ’Republic. Bosnia and Herzegovina is joining Greater Serbia, which is expected to embrace Croatia aud Slavonia. Poland possibly awaits the peace conference. The Czech National Council has proclaimed the Republic of Prague. The district of Vovarlberg has petitions demanding union with Switzerland.

AN ATTEMPTED COUP. AMSTERDAM, November 3. Advices from Prague state the Military Commander, General Kestranek, and two staff officers have been arrested by the Czecho-Slovak National Council for attempting a coup d’etat against the Council, with the assistance of Hungarian troops. The latter refused to obey the order, and fra- ‘ ternised with the Czechs. GERMAN STATE IN BOHEMIA. AMSTERDAM, November 3. The deputies to the Austrian Reieh-srat-li of the German race have proclaimed a new state of German. Bohemia. and are negotiating for its union with Germany. German newspapers assert that Germany has recognised the new state. PILLAGE IN PRAGUE. ' LONDON, November 3. Throughout Slavonia and 'Croatia there are violent outbreaks against the Germans and Magyars, whose property is being pillaged. The German quarter of l’oziga is aflame, while Esseg Pocrak lias almost been destroyed. Czechs at. Prague compelled the German businesses and banks to display French colours . ARMY OFFICER,s MISTRUSTED. COPENHAGEN, November 3. Budapest papers report- the Hungarian National Council has arrested Field Marshal 'Sirainka. The city is now quiet, except- for minor street fights. A German-Austrian regiment in Prague applied to be allowed to return to Vienna, but the Czechs ordered the soldiers to lay down their arms and stripped the officers of their decorations. AUSTRIAN’S FLEET’S CAPTURE. PARIS, November 3. Austria did not. abandon her fleet but the Jugo-Slars after a revolt, seized t-he vessels, and wirelessly advised President Wilson that they were ready to hand the ships over to American or to the Allied governments. ITALIAN OCCUPATION. j Reiner’s Telegrams (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) ROME, November 4. Official—ltalians have occupied Ronverto. INTENDS TO ABDICATE. ' - | “RGUTKR’s” rEI.KGHAM.] COPENHAGEN, Nov. 4. The “Berliner Tageblatt’s ” Vienna correspondent states Emperor Carl, on November 3rd,' conferred with members of the Cabinet and Party Leaders, and announced his intention to abdicate and go to Switzerland. HUNGARIAN’S APPEAL. WANT TO GET CLEAR. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) BERNE, November 4. A wireless in French, from Budapest on Saturday night addressed .to peoples of the world states the Hungarian people bad accomplished a peaceful revolution and had shattered the yoke of its oppressors and established an independent States, it repudiates responsibility for the world war and lays down its arms and desires peace. It declares the fraternity and equality of all the inhabitants of Hungary and Magyars. Now the Magyars appeal to the free nations of the world for preservation of the territorial integrity of Hungary. MAP BARBARIANS. BERNE, Nov. 3. It is reported from Vienna that the Bolsheviks are carrying on a barbarous vendetta on the .eastern borders of Poland. They impale victims, cut off their noses and ears and bury some alive. Those spared are sent to concentration camps, where they arc brutally treated and are constantly liable to assassination. Bolsheviks plunder, and burn their homes and terrorise whole districts. The people are appealing for protection to the Regency Council. AUSTRIAN WITH DR AWAL. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 3. Austrian troops have withdrawn from Poland. !