AUSTRO-HUNGARY

Taranaki Daily News, 31 March 1919, Page 5

AUSTRO-HUNGARY

THE BOLSHEVIK MENACE. ENTENTE ACCUSED OF FORCING REVOLUTION.

Received March 30, 5.5 p.m. Paris, March 24, Hungary's adoption of Bolshevism is regarded as most serious, chiefly as endangering the Entente efforts to build up the Roumanian, Polish, und Czechoslovak States as bulwarks against German domination of Central Europe. All three States are menaced by the advancing Bolshevik armies.

The neutral zone decided upon by the Peace Conference was intended to make the Hungarians desist from attacking the Roumanians and communicating with the Russians, while it closed the gap between Poland and Roumania. According to a Vienna dispatch, the Entente note which precipitated the crisis defined the zone as a belt of 140 miles long and 40 miles wide, virtually abutting on Hungary behind the rivers Theis, Szammos, and Maros. The note required the withdrawal of Hungarian troops behind the western boundary of the belt within ten days, and authorised the Roumanians' advance on the eastern boundary, the civil Government within the zone to be exercised under Allied control.

Statements issued at Budapest accuse the Entente of forcing the revolution, but the revolt is more probably due to the occupation of parts of Hungary by the Czecho-Slovaks and Roumanians, while signs are not wanting of German collusion with the Bolsheviks.—Reuter.

BUDAPEST QUIETER. AUSTRIAN NATIONAL GUARD BOLSHEVISED. Received March 30, 5.5 p.m Paris, March 28. The latest reports state that Budapest is quieter Four food trains were held up between Trieste and Budapest owing to the strike From a French source it is learned that the National Guard of Austria is displaying Bolshevist tendencies.—Aus. Cable Assoc ADVANCE ON VIENNA URGED. Budapest, March 28. Lenin ha<s sent a wireless message to the Hungarians to dispatch an army to Vienna. STATE CONTROL OF FOODSTUFFS Received March 30, 5.5 p.m London, March 29. Farmers' live stock shops iD Budapest are closed for stocktaking, pending State control. Any shopkeeper disobeying will be shot—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. RESIGNATION OF GOVERNMENT DEMANDED. ACTION OF ENTENTE. Received March 31,12.50 a.m. Copenhagen, March 29. Advices from Berlin state that the Entente Powers have, demanded the Hungarian Government's resignation and the election of a National Assembly under the Entente's supervision.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.