THE FATE OF HUNGARY.

Taihape Daily Times, 15 July 1919, Page 2

THE FATE OF HUNGARY.

By means of a rigorous censorship, the attcnlpt is made to deceive the world as to the true conditions in Bxitlupesf, writes a correspondent. The few ]‘_(,'\\'Spa])Cl‘S that. are still allowed to appear have been degraded into dull propxagunda organs -of-Bolshevism. All hostile criticism is threatened with death. Nobody ventures longer to speak out freely, as the Government has an army of spies. Dearth sentences have already been pronounced and car—ried out on persons whose only offence was to express doubts as to the Sim’.bility of» the Soviet Republic. The correspond-ents of foreign newspe.-pets at Bu(l‘.‘.pOSt are under strict 'eei:sorship; tl‘.-eir despatches are clznngecl by lrhe censors ‘at will. Foreign newspapers are not allowed to enter B'ud:1~ pest. ‘ The inipoverishinent. of the Hungariun people in soul and body also finds expression, so far as Bmlapes-t is concerned in the fact that nobody shows any disposition to risk his life for a Hune:al'y of the Soviet Republic. The. accessions to (the ‘Red Arniy’ are very few, despite the most energetic enlistment Cnnipaign and the faVour~ able condifilons offered; xanfl) arrlong the enlisted 111011 there is not the slightest desire for service at the front. There are not the slightest signs of a national resistance to the imperialist. violencc of neighbouring States. “A once proud people, who‘in a weak hour, entrusted their destinies to dangerous illusionists. is going miserably to ruin.” .