THE REVOLUTION NOT BLOODLESS

Taihape Daily Times, 10 April 1919, Page 6

THE REVOLUTION NOT BLOODLESS

PARIS, April 7.

Reports from Hungary show that the revolution was not so bloodless as was made out. There were serious t'usilades in the streets of Budapest. Many were killed and wounded, and there was much pillaging. The Czechoslovak Legation was occupied by the Red Army. The whereabouts of the Legation is unknown. Red Guards raided the Ukrainian Legation and arrest-

ed the personnel, while a Russian officer distributed two million crowns found in the building. t HUNGARIAN REPUBLIC. COMPLETE SUCCESS OF SOVIET COUP. NEW YORK, April 7. United Press messages from Budapest state that the Hungarian Soviet

coup occurred without disorder or bloodshed. Amicable p-clations with the Allied officials continue. Allied troops have full liberty. Everything 3ias been socialised, from the army to the baths. onscription has been

■abolished. Tribunals supplant courts. Industries have been ordered to continue to work. Titles have been abolished. The Stock Exchange has "been closed.

The United Press Agency at Bene learns : that Bolshevist Uprisings Jin Austria and Czceho-slavia are immin-

ent. Any move in these countries against, the Hungarian Soviet Government is expected to precipitate class warfare. WONDERFUL BRITAIN. AN AMERICAN PREDICTION.

PxIRIS, April 7.

Interviewed, an American financial expert, who minutely studied conditions in Europe said he would predict England would be stronger within ■<* year than ever before, because of her commercial enterprise and courage with -which she meets her debts by taxation. Britain's situation, with her war debt of forty billion dollars, compares favourably with her debt ]ier capita wealth at the conclus'on rf the Napoleonic "war.