HUNGARY

Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1919, Page 5

HUNGARY

BOLSHEVIK ACTIVITY, ENTENTE MINISTERS LEAVE. Vienna, March 25. Soon after Count Karolyi resigned the Bolsheviks at Budapest disarmed foreigners and removed their military badges and decorations. Sailors were ] posted with machine-guns in the streets and occupied the Czecho-Slovak Embassy. The Entente Ministers left the city. Some shops were pillaged the foi- j lowing day. I The Bolshevik spirit is increasingly felt in Vienna and thousands made a demonstration in favor of the Bolshevik regime.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. A LARGE ARMY, ON A PERFECT WAR FOOTING. Received March 20, 8.10 p.m. Rome, March 20. It is reported that Count Karolyi recently reviewed the Hungarian army, consisting of 150,000 men on a perfect war footing. They have been supplied with new arms, new uniforms, considerable artillery, and aeroplanes. It is known that over 100,000 Austrian prisoners recently returned from Russia, all tainted with Bolshevik ideas. It is no idle boast that the new Government at Budapest can mobilise at least 70,000 ex-prisoners.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Absoc. PANIC IN BUDAPEST. ' Paris, March 25. There is a panic in Budapest, but the remainder of Hungary is quiet and gives no indication of joining the Soviets. A Bolshevik army is reported to be en route to Hungary from Russia and is said to be in the neighborhood of Brody. It is believed at Prague that the Bolsheviks are merely puppets of the Karolyi Government. KAROLYI'S ANTI-ROUMANIAN MOVE Berne, March 25. Reports from Budapest state fiat" Count Karolyi for months past has been negotiating with the Russian Bolsheviks with the object of introducing Bolshevism in Roumania and Jugo-Slavia. It is alleged that the Russian and Hungarian armies are co-operating against Roumania, with the object of threatening the frontier.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Paris, March 24, The proclamation of a Soviet Republic in Hungary creates a precarious situation in Roumania and the new Czecho-Slovak State. The Soviet's manifesto appeals to the peasants of Roumania and Czecho-Slovakia to join the revolution which intends to free them from the yoke of the capitalist and to prevent the Entente handing over Hungary to the Roumanian obligarcliy. Messages have been exchanged between Lenin and the new Republic.—Aus.-NB. Cable Assn.