AUSTRIA INTERNALLY.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1918, Page 2

AUSTRIA INTERNALLY.

.PEI! I'EfcSS aSSOCIATION.—COPTHIGHI.; AUSTRIAN APPEAL. AMSTERDAM November 4 i Advices from Vienna states that the National Council, in an appeal, urges that in view of the army breaking up in disorder, the guiwrds abandoning war prisoners in the camps there is , danger of vast unemployment- hunger , and misery. The Council urges that 'the soldiers should voluntarily join , the new Germo-Austrian State Corps in order to avert famine and blooct- , shed. Austro-Hungarians ar e leaving Berlin and other towns in panic. | KAROLYI STILL PREMIER. LONDON, November 5. ■ Count Karolyi retains the Hungarian Premiership. The Hungarian Ministry has sworn allegiance of the National Council. Advices from Budapest state that Count Karolyi, speaking at the Town ' Hall, said that King Karl has now consented to release the Hungarian —— , Government frorii its oath. The Government and National Council have resolved that the Goveriment shall ascertain without delay whether the Hungarians favour the- retention, of the Monarchy or wish to set up a Re. public. . 4 ’ ALL TRANSPORTS STOPPED. ' COPENHAGEN November 3. ’ The “National Tidende’ ’says Berlin reports Hungarian Government stopped departures of all ships carrying cargoes for Austria, and Germany. Cargoes include twenty thousands tons of = foodstuffs and large quantities of oil i and petrol. All 1 pther transport to Germany is forbidden, Germany is unable to get back from Roumania five ' hundred locomotives, fifty thousand trucks and carriages. GERMAN STATE IN BOHEMIA, AMSTERDAM. November 5. ■ The “Frankfurter Zeitung” states:' ‘ “Herr Seliger member of the Austrian ! Reichsrath has established a German ' Government in Bohemia. ” 1 NEW ESTHONIAN GOVERNMENT. LONDON, November 4. The Esthonian Provisional Government has demanded that the German Government shall liberate Esthonian political prisoners; return arms ami munitions removed by Germans; and immediately evacuate Esthonia. GERMAN RECOGNITION. I AMSTERDAM, November o. ' Advices From Prague state that the German Government, has recognised tire independent Czecho-Slovnk State, and has announced its readiness to welcome a Czecho-Slovak Ambassador in Berlin at the earliest possible moment. CZECHS DISARM GERMANS. LONDON November 4, Vienna reports state <. Czech troops are disarming German and Austrian troops in the Czech towns of Bohemia and Moravia. AUSTRIAN NEWS. Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) HAGUE, Nov. 4. Vienna, is in a state of constant excitement. owing to panicky rumours.—. The defences were manned on the 3rd--* owing to the belief that escaped oners were marching on Vienna. Soldiers are streaming homewards in disorder, committing terrible excesses, and plundering. Workmeh’a excises are reported in a large number of cities. The newspapers plead for the ■ maintenance of order. Austria-Hun-gary is a world problem. Two thousand escaped [Russians are marching to Budapest. Arch-Duke Joseph, with his son, took the oath of loyalty to the Budapest Council.